{"id":11092,"date":"2020-11-07T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2020-11-07T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:53:13","slug":"issue-of-the-week-human-rights-disease-economic-opportunity-hunger-environment-war-population-personal-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11092","title":{"rendered":"Issue of the Week: Human Rights, Disease, Economic Opportunity, Hunger, Environment, War, Population, Personal Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11102\" src=\"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Image-11-7-20-at-10.47-AM-300x281.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Image-11-7-20-at-10.47-AM-300x281.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Image-11-7-20-at-10.47-AM-150x141.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Image-11-7-20-at-10.47-AM-768x720.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Image-11-7-20-at-10.47-AM.jpeg 832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Biden Beats Trump, <\/em>The New York Times, November 7, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/biden-election.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">&#8220;BIDEN BEATS TRUMP:\u00a0Harris Is First Woman Elected Vice President&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Jonathan Martin<\/span> and <span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Alexander Burns,\u00a0<\/span>November 7, 2020<\/p>\n<p><em>Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity. He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises.<\/em><\/p>\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/07bidenwins-win-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/07bidenwins-win-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/07bidenwins-win-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/merlin_179558073_4262eeaf-8f1c-4553-9669-594a1ed71eb3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/merlin_179558073_4262eeaf-8f1c-4553-9669-594a1ed71eb3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/merlin_179558073_4262eeaf-8f1c-4553-9669-594a1ed71eb3-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/07bidenwins-win\/merlin_179558073_4262eeaf-8f1c-4553-9669-594a1ed71eb3-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"Joseph R. Biden Jr. offered himself as a safe harbor for a broad array of Americans during his third campaign for the presidency.\" \/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"e-big-banner-dek\">\n<div>\n<header class=\"css-ipet58 euiyums1\">\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"sizeLarge layoutHorizontal css-1ox9jel\"><figcaption class=\"css-17ai7jg e18f7pbr0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">Joseph R. Biden Jr. offered himself as a safe harbor for a broad array of Americans during his third campaign for the presidency.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Ruth Fremson\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-18e8msd\">\n<div class=\"css-pdw9fk epjyd6m0\">\n<div class=\"css-1txwxcy ey68jwv0\"><a class=\"css-1s5aqv3\" title=\"Read in Spanish\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/2020\/11\/07\/espanol\/gano-joe-biden.html\" data-version=\"es\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div id=\"NYT_ABOVE_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION\">\n<section id=\"styln-politics-election-signup\" class=\"css-l08pwh interactive-content interactive-size-medium\">\n<div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\">\n<div id=\"notifications-inline\">\n<div class=\"main-notification-container\">\n<div class=\"notification-stack\">\n<div id=\"notification-target\">\n<div class=\"styln-signup-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1sg2lsz\">\n<div class=\"css-mgjs0h styln-signup-cta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1e46tsl\">Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy and a spirit of national unity to confront raging health and economic crises, and making Donald J. Trump a one-term president after four years of tumult in the White House.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden\u2019s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans. Mr. Trump is only the third elected president since World War II to lose re-election, and the first in more than a quarter-century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The result also provided a history-making moment for Mr. Biden\u2019s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, who will become the first woman to serve as vice president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">With his triumph, Mr. Biden, who turns 78 later this month, fulfilled his decades-long ambition in his third bid for the White House, becoming the oldest person elected president. A pillar of Washington who was first elected amid the Watergate scandal, and who prefers political consensus over combat, Mr. Biden will lead a nation and a Democratic Party that have become far more ideological since his arrival in the capital in 1973.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">He offered a mainstream Democratic agenda, yet it was less his policy platform than his biography to which many voters gravitated. Seeking the nation\u2019s highest office a half-century after his first campaign, Mr. Biden \u2014 a candidate in the late autumn of his career \u2014 presented his life of setback and recovery to voters as a parable for a wounded country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In a brief statement, Mr. Biden called for healing and unity. \u201cWith the campaign over, it\u2019s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for America to unite. And to heal. We are the United States of America. And there\u2019s nothing we can\u2019t do, if we do it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In his own statement, Mr. Trump insisted \u201cthis election is far from over\u201d and vowed that his campaign would \u201cstart prosecuting our case in court\u201d but offered no details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The race, which concluded after four tense days of vote-counting in a handful of battlegrounds, was a singular referendum on Mr. Trump in a way no president\u2019s re-election has been in modern times. He coveted the attention, and voters who either adored him or loathed him were eager to render judgment on his tenure. From the beginning to the end of the race, Mr. Biden made the president\u2019s character central to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">This unrelenting focus propelled Mr. Biden to victory in historically Democratic strongholds in the industrial Midwest with Mr. Biden forging a coalition of suburbanites and big-city residents to claim at least three states his party lost in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\">\n<div id=\"c-col-editors-picks\" class=\"css-j64t31\">Yet even as they turned Mr. Trump out of office, voters sent a more uncertain message about the left-of-center platform Mr. Biden ran on as Democrats lost seats in the House and made only modest gains in the Senate. The divided judgment \u2014 a rare example of ticket splitting in partisan times \u2014 demonstrated that, for many voters, their disdain for the president was as personal as it was political.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Even in defeat, though, Mr. Trump demonstrated his enduring appeal to many white voters and his intense popularity in rural areas, underscoring the deep national divisions that Mr. Biden has vowed to heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The outcome of the race came into focus slowly as states and municipalities grappled with the legal and logistical challenges of voting in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. With an enormous backlog of early and mail-in votes, some states reported their totals in a halting fashion that in the early hours of Wednesday painted a misleadingly rosy picture for Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">But as the big cities of the Midwest and West began to report their totals, the advantage in the race shifted the electoral map in Mr. Biden\u2019s favor. By Wednesday afternoon, the former vice president had rebuilt much of the so-called blue wall in the Midwest, reclaiming the historically Democratic battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan that Mr. Trump carried four years ago. And on Saturday, with troves of ballots coming in from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, he took back Pennsylvania as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">While Mr. Biden stopped short of claiming victory as the week unfolded, he appeared several times in his home state, Delaware, to express confidence that he could win, while urging patience as the nation awaited the results. Even as he sought to claim something of an electoral mandate, noting that he had earned more in the popular vote than any other candidate in history, Mr. Biden struck a tone of reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">It would soon be time, he said, \u201cto unite, to heal, to come together as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/06bidenwins-trump\/06bidenwins-trump-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"President Trump was the first incumbent president to lose his re-election bid in more than a quarter-century.\" \/><\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\"><figcaption class=\"css-18crmh6 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">President Trump was the first incumbent president to lose his re-election bid in more than a quarter-century.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In the days after the election, Mr. Biden and his party faced a barrage of attacks from Mr. Trump. The president falsely claimed in a middle-of-the-night appearance at the White House on Wednesday that he had won the race and that Democrats were conjuring fraudulent votes to undermine him, a theme he renewed on Thursday evening in grievance-filled remarks conjuring up, with no evidence, a conspiracy to steal votes from him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-3-wrapper\" class=\"css-1r07izm\">The president\u2019s campaign aides adopted a tone of brash defiance as swing states fell to Mr. Biden, saying they would demand a recount in Wisconsin and take legal action to stop vote counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania. On Friday morning, Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign issued a statement vowing to press forward with legal challenges and declaring, despite the erosion of his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, \u201cThis election is not over.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Though Mr. Trump\u2019s ire had the potential to foment political divisions and even civil unrest, there was <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-election-voter-fraud.html\">no indication that he could succeed<\/a> with his seemingly improvisational legal strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In the end, it was Pennsylvania that provided Mr. Biden the necessary 270th Electoral College vote to claim victory, with Mr. Biden leading by over four million votes nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Through it all, the coronavirus and its ravages on the country hung over the election and shaped the choice for voters. Facing an electorate already fatigued by his aberrant conduct, the president effectively sealed his defeat by minimizing a pandemic that has created simultaneous health and economic crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Beginning with the outbreak of the virus in the country at the start of the year, through his own diagnosis last month and up to the last hours of the election, he <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html\">disregarded his medical advisers and public opinion<\/a> even as <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">over 230,000 people<\/a> in the United States perished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden, by contrast, sought to channel the dismay of those appalled by Mr. Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-covid.html\">mismanagement of the pandemic<\/a>. He offered himself as a safe harbor for a broad array of Americans, promising to guide the nation out of what he called the \u201cdark winter\u201d of the outbreak, rather than delivering a visionary message with bright ideological themes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-4-wrapper\" class=\"css-1r07izm\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-4\" class=\"ad story-ad-4-wrapper\" data-google-query-id=\"CJHQ46T-8OwCFRisYgodgXcDIw\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"after-story-ad-4\">While the president ridiculed mask-wearing and insisted on continuing his large rallies, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/stanford-study-infections-trump-rallies.html\">endangering<\/a> his own staff members and supporters, Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris campaigned with caution, avoiding indoor events, insisting on social distancing and always wearing masks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-8h527k\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/merlin_179504964_10f3acc1-675d-4cfc-9b0c-eed89bbb60ed-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/merlin_179504964_10f3acc1-675d-4cfc-9b0c-eed89bbb60ed-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/merlin_179504964_10f3acc1-675d-4cfc-9b0c-eed89bbb60ed-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f2\/merlin_179504964_10f3acc1-675d-4cfc-9b0c-eed89bbb60ed-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"Senator Kamala Harris of California will be the first woman to serve as vice president.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\"><figcaption class=\"css-18crmh6 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">Senator Kamala Harris of California will be the first woman to serve as vice president.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Michelle V. Agins\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Convinced that he could win back the industrial Northern states that swung to Mr. Trump four years ago, Mr. Biden focused his energy on Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden triumphed in those states on the strength of overwhelming support from women, who voted in large numbers to repudiate Mr. Trump despite his last-minute pleas to \u201csuburban housewives,\u201d as he called them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Many of the women who decided the president\u2019s fate were politically moderate college-educated suburbanites, who made their presence felt as an electoral force first in the 2018 midterm elections, when a historic wave of female candidates and voters served as the driving force behind the Democratic sweep to power in the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1o1i25\">\n<div class=\"css-13hf6pj\">\n<div class=\"css-8l22nw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-president.html?name=styln-elections-2020&amp;region=inline&amp;block=storyline_latest_updates_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;impression_id=f88ccfe0-2120-11eb-be85-f1a2d0eb66a1&amp;variant=1_Show&amp;index=0\">Election 2020 \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"storyline-latest-updates\" class=\"css-13fxibs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/election-results?name=styln-elections-2020&amp;region=inline&amp;block=storyline_latest_updates_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;impression_id=f88ccfe1-2120-11eb-be85-f1a2d0eb66a1&amp;variant=1_Show&amp;index=1\">Live\u00a0Updates<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"css-1540mv0\">\n<li class=\"css-1dyjvxh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/election-results?name=styln-elections-2020&amp;region=inline&amp;block=storyline_latest_updates_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;impression_id=f88ccfe2-2120-11eb-be85-f1a2d0eb66a1&amp;variant=1_Show&amp;index=2#celebrations-break-out-in-the-streets-of-washington-about-a-mile-from-the-white-house\">Celebrations break out in the streets of Washington, about a mile from the White House.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1dyjvxh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/election-results?name=styln-elections-2020&amp;region=inline&amp;block=storyline_latest_updates_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;impression_id=f88cf6f0-2120-11eb-be85-f1a2d0eb66a1&amp;variant=1_Show&amp;index=2#biden-wins-nevadas-6-electoral-votes\">Biden wins Nevada\u2019s 6 electoral votes.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1dyjvxh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/election-results?name=styln-elections-2020&amp;region=inline&amp;block=storyline_latest_updates_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;impression_id=f88cf6f1-2120-11eb-be85-f1a2d0eb66a1&amp;variant=1_Show&amp;index=2#trump-disputes-bidens-victory-and-says-he-does-not-believe-the-election-is-over\">Trump disputes Biden\u2019s victory and says he does not believe the election is over.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Even aside from the pandemic, the 2020 campaign unfolded against a backdrop of national tumult unequaled in recent history, including the House\u2019s vote to impeach the president less than a year ago, a national wave of protests over racial injustice last spring, spasms of civil unrest throughout the summer, the death of a Supreme Court justice in September and the hospitalization of Mr. Trump in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Along the way, Mr. Trump played to his conservative base, seeking to divide the nation over race and cultural flash points. He encouraged those fears, and the underlying social divisions that fostered them. And for months he sought to sow doubt over the legitimacy of the political process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden, in response, offered a message of healing that appealed to Americans from far left to center right. He made common cause by promising relief from the unceasing invective and dishonesty of Mr. Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The former vice president also sought to demonstrate his differences with the president with his selection of Ms. Harris, 56, whose presence on the ticket as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants stood in stark contrast to Mr. Trump\u2019s relentless scapegoating of migrants and members of racial-minority groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-5-wrapper\" class=\"css-1r07izm\">\n<div id=\"after-story-ad-5\">Mr. Biden will be only the second Catholic to attain the presidency, along with John F. Kennedy.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-8h527k\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/merlin_179592678_1d772458-b4e8-4070-a5be-6aa41b163c76-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/merlin_179592678_1d772458-b4e8-4070-a5be-6aa41b163c76-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/merlin_179592678_1d772458-b4e8-4070-a5be-6aa41b163c76-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f5\/merlin_179592678_1d772458-b4e8-4070-a5be-6aa41b163c76-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"Mr. Biden\u2019s election represented the culmination of nearly four years of activism in opposition to Mr. Trump.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\"><figcaption class=\"css-18crmh6 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">Mr. Biden\u2019s election represented the culmination of nearly four years of activism in opposition to Mr. Trump.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Kenny Holston for The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In an era when political differences have metastasized into tribal warfare, at least 74 million voters turned to a figure who has become known as the <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/11\/us\/politics\/joe-biden-funeral-speech.html\">eulogist in chief<\/a> for his empathy and friendships with Republicans and Democrats alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In a sign of how much Mr. Trump alienated traditional Republicans, a number of prominent members of the party <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/republicans-voting-for-biden-not-trump.html\">endorsed Mr. Biden\u2019s candidacy<\/a>, including Cindy McCain, the widow of former Senator John McCain; the party\u2019s other two presidential nominees this century, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, declined to endorse Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Yet for all his lofty language about uniting the country, Mr. Biden was a halting candidate who ran a cautious campaign, determined to ensure that the election became a referendum on Mr. Trump. The former vice president fully returned to the campaign trail only around Labor Day, and for weeks he limited his appearances to one state every other day or so. He went west of the Central time zone just once during the general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">As he prepares to take the oath, he will return to Washington confronting a daunting set of crises. Mr. Biden will be pressed to swiftly secure and distribute a safe vaccine for the coronavirus, revive an economy that may be in even more dire shape in January than it is now, and address racial justice and policing issues that this year prompted some of the largest protests in American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">And he will do so with a Congress that is far more polarized than the Senate he left over a decade ago, with many Republicans having embraced Mr. Trump\u2019s nativist brand of populism and Democrats increasingly responsive to an energized left. If Mr. Biden cannot bridge that divide as president and elicit some cooperation from the G.O.P., he will face immense pressure from his party\u2019s progressive wing to abandon conciliation for a posture of combat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden has <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-congress.html\">held out hope<\/a> about working with Republican lawmakers while declining to support his party\u2019s most ambitious goals, like single-payer health care and the Green New Deal; he has resisted structural changes such as <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/22\/us\/politics\/biden-supreme-court-packing.html\">adding justices to the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">This irked his party\u2019s base but made it difficult for Republicans, from Mr. Trump down the ballot, to portray him as an extremist. Mr. Biden was largely absent from the appeals of G.O.P. candidates, who instead used their advertising to insist that the Democratic Party would be in the hands of more polarizing figures on the left such as Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Unlike the last two Democrats who defeated incumbents after voters tired of Republican leadership, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Mr. Biden will not arrive in the capital as a youthful outsider. Instead, he will fill out a Democratic leadership triumvirate, which includes Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, of lawmakers who are 70 or older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden alluded to himself during the campaign as a transitional figure who would bring the country out of a crisis and then make way for a new generation. But he has privately rejected suggestions that he commit to serving just a single term, viewing that as an instant guarantee of lame-duck status.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-8h527k\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazyimage-container\"><picture class=\"css-1j5kxti\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=600\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1200\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale&amp;width=1800\" media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/merlin_179394966_fe8d015e-36d3-48f3-aa62-e9f6f1eb81fe-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/merlin_179394966_fe8d015e-36d3-48f3-aa62-e9f6f1eb81fe-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/merlin_179394966_fe8d015e-36d3-48f3-aa62-e9f6f1eb81fe-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04bidenwinsHFO-f4-sub\/merlin_179394966_fe8d015e-36d3-48f3-aa62-e9f6f1eb81fe-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"As the big cities of the Midwest and West began to report their totals, places like Detroit began to shift the balance of the electoral map in Mr. Biden\u2019s favor.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"css-1ef8w8q e1g7ppur0\"><figcaption class=\"css-18crmh6 ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\">As the big cities of the Midwest and West began to report their totals, places like Detroit began to shift the balance of the electoral map in Mr. Biden\u2019s favor.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Erin Schaff\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">One of the most significant tests of Mr. Biden\u2019s presidency will be in how he navigates the widening divisions in his party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">He may enjoy a honeymoon, though, because of both the scale of the problems he is grappling with and the president he defeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">This election represented the culmination of nearly four years of activism organized around opposing Mr. Trump, a movement that began with the Women\u2019s March the day after his inauguration. Indeed, Mr. Biden\u2019s election appeared less the unique achievement of a political standard-bearer than the apex of a political wave touched off by the 2016 election \u2014 one that Mr. Biden rode more than he directed it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-7-wrapper\" class=\"css-1r07izm\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-7-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\">But Mr. Trump\u2019s job approval rating never hit 50 percent and, when the coronavirus spread nationwide and Mr. Biden effectively claimed the Democratic nomination in March, the president\u2019s hopes of running with a booming economy and against a far-left opponent evaporated at once.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Still, many Democrats were nervous and some Republicans were defiantly optimistic going into the election, both still gripped by Mr. Trump\u2019s shocker four years ago. And well into the night Tuesday, it seemed as if the president might be able to do it again. But four days later, after a year of trial in America and four turbulent years of the Trump administration, victory was in hand for Mr. Biden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Beats Trump, The New York Times, November 7, 2020 &nbsp; &#8220;BIDEN BEATS TRUMP:\u00a0Harris Is First Woman Elected Vice President&#8221; By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns,\u00a0November 7, 2020 Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity. 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