Folks, the people of this nation have spoken.

They've delivered us a clear victory.

Tonight, we're seeing all over this nation, indeed, across the world, an outpouring joy

of hope, renewed faith, and tomorrow, bring a better day.

Imagine things had gone a bit differently.

What if Joe Biden had won the election?

But that's it.

No Georgia runoffs, no Senate majority, no American rescue plan, no long debates over

budget reconciliation or the filibuster or voting rights.

The golf between that world and this one is almost too vast to fathom, but we came so

so close to living in it.

What would Biden's presidency have looked like then?

Well, for one thing, we probably wouldn't be talking about Biden's legislative legacy.

With Congress gridlocked, Biden would have had to make more use of his executive powers,

and Democrats would probably devote more resources to Trump accountability.

The only part of the story that might have preceded unchanged is in the sphere of foreign

policy.

That's where, for better and worse, the president's powers are greatest and least

reviewable.

And with much less news on the legislative front tubes orb, we would have taken greater

notice of some pretty big developments.

Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accord.

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