For months, Joe Biden has been campaigning with endless variations on a simple theme: vote and we can end this. We can end the craziness, the incompetence, the sheer exhausting daily spectacle that has been the Presidency of Donald John Trump. “I promise you this,” Biden said the other day. “I’ll end Donald Trump’s chaos and end this crisis.”
But not yet. The 2020 election—which Democrats waited four years for, since the stunning 2016 upset that made Trump President, in a quirk of Electoral College math—was not the Election Night knockout that Biden wanted it to be. The contest between Biden and Trump remains too close to call, and although Biden may yet end it, even definitively so, the spectre of days or even weeks of post-election legal confrontation that Trump has threatened may now come to pass.
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