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Having run as a transitional figure, Biden succumbed early to the fatal conceit that he could be a transformational leader, akin to Franklin D. Roosevelt or Lyndon B. Johnson.
Why it matters: Arizona was a surprise win for Biden in 2020, marking only the second time a Democratic candidate has won the state in almost 70 years. ... Biden’s win here in 2020 was narrow ...
Biden’s 2020 win was by a similarly narrow margin. ... For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Biden's strongest base of support was the Philadelphia metro area. In the city of Philadelphia itself, Biden won by 63.4%, a weaker win than Hillary Clinton's 66.9% margin in the city in 2016, but still better than Kerry's 61.1% margin in 2004 or Gore's 62.0% margin in 2000. [205]
The reason is plain: Biden’s disastrous performance in a June debate with Trump, where his halting, meandering answers sharpened doubts about his age and cognitive abilities.
Biden became the first Democrat to win the presidential election in Georgia since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996, [19] and the first candidate to win nationally without Florida since 1992 and Ohio since 1960, casting doubt on Ohio's continued status as a bellwether state. [319]
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
President Biden won by roughly one-third of a point. Georgia Trump is up by seven-tenths of a point in the state that gave Biden his narrowest win in percentage terms in 2020.