Letters

摘要

Joe Biden has won 306 electoral-college votes, including the "Republican states" of Arizona and Georgia. He has taken back the blue-wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He also won the national popular vote, probably by a margin of five percentage points. All this while running against an incumbent president and all the advantages that conveys, and the substantial bias towards Republicans in the electoral college. The narrative that this was a close election is a false one ("When every vote counts", November 7th). It arose from the order in which votes were counted-Florida was an early win for Donald Trump-and the inevitable delays in counting record numbers of postal ballots, most of which came from Democrats. True, it was not the landslide predicted by many pollsters, who have clearly failed in consecutive election cycles, but it is an enormous victory for Mr Biden and the coalition he has built, and a repudiation of Mr Trump.