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

All presidents since 1976 combined served less than 8 years in Congress. Biden will enter with the longest experience in Congress ever for a president: 36 years, not including 8 years as vice president. He has a long history of dealmaking ties to Senate leaders. But his presidency will be a test of whether that experience still helps pass legislation in a polarized era.

As a reminder, we don’t yet know when Trump will address the nation. The White House issued earlier today what is called a “travel/photo lid,” meaning no media access to Trump for the rest of the day. That is significant for the reasons you cite, Kaleigh, and as Julia said at the outset — this tradition of victory and concession speeches might have been made for the TV era — but the victory speech in the absence of a concession does speak to how polarized our country is.

Another thing that’s striking to me: Biden said, “Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now,” which sorta reminded me of that line from Obama’s speech about the sea levels beginning to fall. The bar has kinda been lowered, huh?