Joe Biden arrives with his wife Jill to react to early results in Wilmington, Delaware. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Politico: Biden looks screwed even if he wins
At a minimum, the lackluster performance of Democratic Senate candidates would hamstring a President Biden from Day One.
This is not the outcome Democrats expected.
Despite many bold predictions of a rout in which Democrats gained (or re-gained) Trumpian red territory of 2016, as of early Wednesday only one state — Arizona — had flipped from red to blue. Six states remain outstanding: Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Assuming North Carolina and Georgia have slipped away from Biden — Georgia is not out of reach for him — and that Nevada remains blue, the best-case scenario for the former vice president is a 290-electoral vote victory. That’s more than George W. Bush achieved in his two successful campaigns (271 in 2000 and 286 in 2004), but fewer than Barack Obama (365 in 2008 and 332 in 2012) and Donald Trump (304 in 2016)
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WNU Editor: Even though the election is not over, the US media is already writing stories on what a Biden administration will be facing when it comes to power. Even predicting a Republican controlled Senate blocking a Biden administration agenda.
This is just the start. Expect a flood of these type of news reports today and for the rest of this week .... setting the groundwork that Biden is already the President.
As for the Politico's assertion that a Republican controlled Senate will block a President Biden agenda. I am not sure about that. There are too many Republican senators who may enjoy working with a Biden White House. All that it will take will be two of them to break ranks.
