特朗普是百年第四位連任失敗、1892年來兩輸普選票的總統。
That puts Mr Biden on track to finish with more than 300 electoral-college votes. The Republican president falsely claims to have won the election, says it is rigged and has filed multiple lawsuits to try to disrupt the vote-count. But however he may rage he is only the fourth president in a century to have failed to win re-election. He is also the first president since Benjamin Harrison, in 1892, to have lost the popular vote twice.
America is probably not in any danger of democratic overthrow. More likely, it is hearing the last bark of the Trumpian carnival. But it is remarkable that that is even a relevant question—in America, today. No one should underestimate how good it is that Mr Trump will soon be gone.
