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

While we are on the subject of Vermont, two fun political facts about the Green Mountain State, that longstanding bastion of Yankee Republicanism: 1) Vermont was one of only two states to go Republican in FDR’s 1936 landslide (Maine was the other), and 2) Jeffords’s seat, now held by Sanders, had been Republican almost 150 years — longer than any other in the country. In 1850, lawyer Solomon Foot won that Vermont Senate seat as a Whig. In 1854, Foot helped found the Republican Party. It stayed Republican until Jeffords switched in 2001.