It started off as a bad remake for Democrats.
Whoever could not be elected was going to be re-elected.
After an unlikely comeback by Biden in key states of Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump may ultimately fail to extend his White House lease.
But, if defeated there is, it will have been played on the wire at the end of one of the most contested electoral battles of the last fifty years.
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And against all odds, the Republicans should retain their majority in the Senate, especially thanks to the election of relatives of the outgoing president.
Once again the pollsters and the media were therefore wrong.
Far from being rejected by all Americans, Trump was carried by a tidal wave that is likely to prove lasting.
Especially since it is possible to imagine that it was mitigated by the health crisis without which Donald Trump would probably have been easily victorious.
Defeated by Biden in terms of popular vote, incumbent president
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