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

    by Janet Hook and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2020 6 minutes

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

    Senate Republicans are poised to deep-six Biden's agenda in Congress, whether they keep control or Democrats eke out a one-vote majority. Biden's party is already roiled by competing demands from anxious centrists and restless progressives. The broad, ideologically diverse coalition that united behind Biden out of disgust for Trump is quickly fracturing.

    "This administration will be dealing with a lot of incoming all at once," said Vanita Gupta, a former Obama administration official who now runs the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, an influential progressive coalition. Linking arms for an election

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