Lucky review: how Biden beat Trump – and doubters like Obama and Hillary

Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes deliver a clear-eyed account of an election which could not cure a country's wounds

Seven million votes more was almost not enough. Had 45,000 gone the other way in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, Donald Trump would still be president. Calls to defund the police nearly cost Joe Biden victory and led to a more than a dozen-seat loss for House Democrats.

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