5 Reasons Why Joe Biden Won – Burning Issues

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Incumbent lost

Decades of deep relationships to build on while getting support from Democratic party.

Biden described Trump’s four years as an aberration.
“But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

Reassuring Americans that he could carry them back to a calmer, less politically divisive past.
Supported the Black lives Matter protests (But NOT ‘Defund the police’)
Focus on values like – empathy and decency.
He made history by choosing a Black+ Asian woman, Kamala Harris, to be his running mate.
During the primaries , he held firm to the center while his rivals raced to the left.

Joe Biden – From a virtual disaster in early campaigning to first in American history to run a general-election campaign nearly entirely online, using an avalanche of data-driven texts, calls and Facebook groups.
For months, Biden held virtual events and live-streamed speeches from his home.
His campaign Digital organizers recruited more than 200,000 volunteers and deployed them to send hundreds of millions of text messages and phone calls.

Highest turnout in US Presidential elections since 1900 – 66.9%

Trump’s inability to empathize with the American people about the situation they’re in.
During #BLM protests, Trump called protesters “thugs,” threatened them with “vicious dogs” and promised that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Biden consoled George Floyd’s family, visited with racial-justice protesters and attended a community meeting at a local Black church.
There was enough enthusiasm against Trump that even if people weren’t in love with Joe Biden, they certainly were able to vote for him.