Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Near the top of his speech tonight, Biden said “They delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory.” Indeed, as FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver wrote earlier today, Biden’s win wasn’t a landslide, but it was a thoroughly convincing win with a pretty good map.

But Biden is now asking these questions — “What is our mandate?” — and is answering in very broad terms like decency before pivoting to more specific questions like the pandemic and systemic racism.

To that point, Sarah, on how much of a snap back to normal there will be. Here’s pretty-run-of-the-mill Republican Sen. Marco Rubio:

We’re not getting a snap back.