The ground game and margin of effort mattered.
@jaykuo Are the leaders of the Democratic Party still happy that they forced Biden out of the race?

@soulexpress @jaykuo It wasn't the leaders of the Democratic Party, it was the corporate media. Watch this for example: https://www.youtube.com/live/Gtk4AY4Fyak

That relentless assault forced a lose-lose choice on the Democrats. That was the moment American journalists, having learned nothing from 2016, made the Trump second term possible.

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