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Georgia Gives Biden an Opportunity to Be Bold
With Democrats likely to control the Senate, the new administration can more easily pave the way for lasting prosperity.
His job is now a little easier.
Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesDemocrats appear poised to take narrow control of the Senate in the wake of Georgia’s runoff election, giving President-elect Joe Biden an opening to pursue bolder and more imaginative policies than seemed possible just days ago.
To get congressional support for his agenda, Biden will have to pull together progressives and moderates in his own party, bear independents in mind, and also pick off some Republican members of Senator Mitch McConnell’s caucus. But this will be easier if McConnell is dethroned as majority leader.