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How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes

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Published
March 2, 2021
Publisher
Crown
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On Political Wire 3 posts

  • Feb 26, 2021
    Inside Team Biden’s Push Back on Trump Jokes

    Vanity Fair runs an excerpt from Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency on how Biden's campaign team tried to tone down Julia Louis-Dreyfus' act at the Democratic convention.

  • Feb 24, 2021
    How Biden Barely Won the Presidency

    A must-read: Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.

  • Jan 25, 2021
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