Biden has achieved his No 1 campaign promise: Beat Trump. Now what?


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  • Sunday, 08 Nov 2020

Winning the 2020 election is only the beginning. — Bloomberg

WHEN Joe Biden steps into the Oval Office in January, he will already have fulfilled his No 1 campaign pledge: to oust President Trump.

That likely will turn out to have been the easy part. It will be much harder for Biden to deliver on his broader promises to push far-reaching progressive initiatives to address the health, economic and social crises besetting the nation.

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