How Big is Biden's Victory?
Almost three weeks after election day, President-elect Biden's popular vote lead over President Trump is ~6,000,000 votes. To put that in perspective, that gap is nearly equivalent to ALL of the votes cast in the following seven states captured by Trump: Oklahoma (1.5M) South Dakota (0.3M) North Dakota (0.3M) Alaska (0.3M) Utah (1.4M) Nebraska (0.9M) Kansas (1.3M) The above states also total 33 electoral votes. Now this is an academic exercise, but the margin of victory in votes, states, and electoral votes is significant. It is a landslide, plain and simple. Trump’s defenders like to point to his 74Million vote tally as unprecedented for an incumbent. Yes, it is true, but coming in second in a two-person race is still coming in last. At the end of the day, the race was not nearly as close as 2016 when Trump claimed a landslide.