A Short List of People and Things that Would Have Beat Joe Biden
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                            President Joe Biden told USA Today that “based on the polling,” he thinks he would have beat Donald Trump in 2024, which is the kind of thinking, or lack thereof, that disqualified him from the race on national TV last summer. Barack Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau said on Pod Save America that when the Kamala Harris campaign took over, they found internal Biden polling which showed that Trump was winning at least 400 electoral votes after the debate. This is what that map may have looked like.
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