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

The 2008 and 2016 acceptance speeches felt like the potential beginnings of new eras in American politics. But this feels much more like the end of a tumultuous era than a beginning. Even 1992, the last defeat of an incumbent president, felt like a potential era of change because of a new generation of leadership. But this is much more of a return to the old style, and it’s even being sold that way.

Biden mentioned Native Americans as he listed off the groups he received support from, and as things may play out in Arizona, that group could be the difference between him winning and losing the state’s electoral votes. Currently, Biden leads there by about 19,000 votes, but in the three counties that overlap the lands of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona, Biden edged out Trump by a little more than 22,000 votes. We’ll see where Arizona ends up as it has another 100,000 or so votes to count, but it’s possible that support among American Indian communities in Arizona might make the difference there.

We are hearing a lot of religious rhetoric from Biden tonight, which isn’t a surprise — he’s a Catholic, as Clare mentioned, and he’s also made religion a much more central part of his campaign than many Democrats do. It’s interesting in the context of the Democratic Party’s changing demographics, though. The largest part of his religious coalition may end up being people with no religious affiliation at all. Given their strong support for Biden this year, though, I doubt many will mind!