A common line you hear regarding the 2020 election is that it was the worst political environment in decades for an incumbent political party. Yet as we all know, Trump and the GOP only narrowly lost and actually.
So was the environment really as bad as it appeared at the time, given the result? What did the Democrats do to nearly blow the 2020 in this supposedly horrible political environment? And let's not resort to anything about polarization.
It was, but Biden failed to actually campaign too seriously.
Trump largely ended up in the same place Hillary did, and Biden pretty much ended up being able to win by doing nothing...just like Trump in 2016. We really can't be sure what difference moving election day forward or back one week would've done.
A serious campaign with an actual direction would've easily flipped NC and Florida and moved the complete Midwest by as much as MN moved.
