Joe Biden has now confounded his doubters, making history as the oldest elected president with the first female Vice President
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign was considered a lost cause following his early defeats in the frigid winter at the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Even when he roared back, first in balmy South Carolina, and ran up a string of victories in Super Tuesday primaries, his skeptics abounded. He was too old. Maybe even borderline senile. He was campaigning at home from his basement against an incumbent president who knew how to dominate the news cycle and debilitate opponents.
Joe Biden has now confounded his doubters. An hour after Shabbos ended in Jerusalem, CNN was the first network to project that Joe Biden would become the nation’s 46th president, with Pennsylvania putting Biden over the top. About 15 minutes later, Fox News seconded that projection, also adding Nevada to Biden’s column in addition to Pennsylvania.
Georgia, North Carolina and Alaska are still undecided, but Biden has more than the 270 electoral votes he needs.
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