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

The rhetoric tonight was bipartisan, traditional and somber, and it kept Harris’s role in the foreground — but I imagine they’ve got to be planning for an immediate resumption of the tense relationship with Senate Republicans that characterized Obama’s final two years in office.

Biden and Harris both presented a message of hope while recognizing the challenges their administration will face — not only the raging pandemic, but also a country that’s increasingly divided along partisan lines. Those are big challenges. On the latter, Biden said we need to “lower the temperature” in partisan fights, which gave me whiplash! Such a contrast with Trump. But we will have to wait and see whether he can actually increase cooperation.

With the speech over, my mind turns to the next couple of months. How hard of a transition is Trump going to make this? My guess is he won’t make it easy. And while I think some Biden supporters may imagine that this is somehow the end of Trump, the president may decide not to go quietly, and he’ll have plenty of attentive ears should he continue to have an aggressive public persona come 2021. What the impact of that will be, I don’t know.