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

Every presidential election is historic, but this one perhaps especially so. The first female vice president. The end of one of the most tumultuous administrations in American history. But despite today’s events, the future is not rosy for Democrats. Biden will have real trouble enacting any kind of legislative agenda if Democrats don’t win two runoff elections for Senate in Georgia in January. And Republicans did well in state-level elections that control redistricting, enabling them to draw favorable House and state legislature maps for the next decade.

This speech really set a tone and represented a major shift from the rhetoric we’ve gotten from Trump for the last four years. Even though we’ve heard similar thoughts from Biden throughout the campaign, it’s obviously different when he is president-elect and giving a glimpse of what we can expect for the next four years. What a shift we have ahead.

The main thing I’m struck by in the speeches tonight is something fairly simple and obvious — the change in tone. Harris and Biden both gave standard-order political speeches. But it’s a pretty stark reminder of what this election meant for many voters, and how things will change under a Biden presidency. To state the obvious, even if the divisions and polarization remain, politics is going to feel very different come January.