Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

I'm Gaelin Druke, the chaos surrounding the 2020 election meant that one story would

often supplant another before we fully had time to process the first story.

To give you an example here at 538, in early March of 2020, we had plans for an audio documentary

report detailing the 72 hours between the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday, when

then candidate Biden went from an underdog to practically the presumptive nominee.

As you may know, from listening to this podcast, that report never actually happened.

The pandemic sent us into lockdown and totally upended our coverage plans, and that's

not the only time we tore up our plans in 2020.

So today, with the benefit of hindsight and some time to breathe, we're going to reflect

on those kinds of key moments in the 2020 race.

And here with me to do that are the authors of the new book Lucky How Joe Biden barely won

the presidency.

The book is the first big reported account of the 2020 campaign in its entirety, and the

authors here with me are Jonathan Allen, senior political analyst with NBC News.

Hello Jonathan, welcome.

Thank you, Gaelin.

It's good to be with you.

And also with us is Amy Parnes, senior correspondent for The Hill.

Welcome Amy, good to have you.

Thank you for having me.

I want to begin with the period in late February slash early March that I just mentioned.

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