Biden Has Plenty of Know-How. He’s Going to Need It.
Few presidents arrive at the White House as well qualified by experience and temperament, but the challenges will still be brutal.
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Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesCongratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. In the end, the election wasn’t close, despite the illusion created by the order in which the ballots were counted, although it was far from a landslide. Biden will probably win 306 electoral votes and a solid majority of the popular vote.
Donald Trump becomes a rare president who was defeated in his party’s first term in the White House, the first since Jimmy Carter, who was the only such president in the 20th century. Trump ’s presidency will certainly be remembered for lawlessness and efforts to undermine U.S. democracy. Put that and personal-probity issues aside — no, we can’t really put them aside, but nevertheless — and Trump has a surprising amount in common with the law-abiding Carter.