Summary of Ali Vitali's Electable

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#1 The 2020 election was a culmination of events that began in 2016 with the rise of Donald Trump, and it was a continuation of the issues that came with his presidency.

#2 I was doing all I could to stay calm and collected, but inside I was a wreck. -> On November 7, 2020, Joe Biden was declared president after a lengthy count in Pennsylvania. The networks had been waiting for Biden to win Pennsylvania so they could make the announcement, but his staff was relieved nonetheless.

#3 Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020 because of the coattails effect of the six women who ran for president in the same Democratic primary cycle.

#4 The coattails effect of the six women who ran for president in the same Democratic primary cycle helped Biden win the presidency in 2020.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000429

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On November 2, 2020, Americans were learning the news about who had won the presidential election. Many spent the afternoon dancing, waving Biden-Harris signs, and salty tears soaking into the cloth of their masks. Exultant Biden-backers were spontaneously gathering everywhere you’d expect them to be.

#2

Trump desperately tried to claim he had actually won the election, even as millions of votes were still being counted. The networks, however, were careful. Biden was declared president-elect on Saturday morning, November 7.

#3

Despite Biden’s victory, Democrats still lost ground in the House. The six women who were running for president all fell short of the ultimate prize. They lacked the national name recognition of a former two-term vice president.

#4

Once in the position of president-elect, Biden found himself on the verge of history, or at least adjacent to it. The parallel between serving under Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, and serving with Kamala Harris, America’s first Black, South Asian, and female vice president, was not lost on Biden.

#5

Biden’s stable and steeped-in-history leadership style allowed him to meet the moment in 2008 and again in 2020. He selected a female running mate in 2020, which was significant for both his legacy as president and because it allowed him to lean into actualizing a phrase he had told members of his inner circle for years: It’s time for a woman.

#6

Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate, was the first African American and South Asian American woman to be vice president.

#7

The elevation of Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, to the most presidential non-presidential role there is, makes it easier for any woman who comes next. But they have never been elected to the presidency outright and on their own.

#8

Biden exemplifies a lifelong politician who has been heralding systemic change. He elevated women to positions of leadership and allowed them