5 Lessons Democrats Can Learn From The 2020 Elections

The big mystery of this election is why there was a disparity between President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive win and Democrats’ disappointing down-ballot performance.

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Democrats are trying to figure out what the voters were trying to tell them this year, because it was kind of confusing.

President-elect Joe Biden won the popular vote by 4.5 percentage points — a 7 million vote margin — and got 306 electoral votes, which President Trump once called “a massive landslide victory” when he got the same number in 2016.

But Biden had no coattails.