The headlines are already written “Biden Defeats Trump” is the nut clutching, constipated, forced plea. Just like “Clinton Defeats Trump” was. Some remember the headline the year that I was born(and that wasn't yesterday) “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
Just like Biden, Thomas E. Dewey was the clear establishment pick from the start. Like Biden, Dewey therefore entered the race as a known moderate with ample public-policy experience. Mindful of California’s electoral importance, he picked a Californian running mate, Governor Earl Warren. Like Biden, Dewey ran a low-risk, low-profile campaign, assuming the inevitability of his victory, on the advice of his highly experienced campaign managers. As today, the mainstream media overwhelmingly favoured the challenger. Dewey gained endorsements from almost every major newspaper in America. Newsweek surveyed 50 political experts on Oct. 11 and received unanimous confirmation that Dewey would win: “The landslide for Dewey will sweep the country.” As today, too, the press loathed the incumbent. The Detroit Free Press dismissed Harry S. Truman as “intellectually unqualified” to remain president. The Los Angeles Times called him “the most complete fumbler and blunderer this nation has seen in high office in a long time.” Alastair Cooke of the Manchester Guardian published an article on the day of the election entitled “Harry S. Truman: A Study of a Failure.”
History loves a repeat.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-11-01/three-words-that-haunt-joe-biden-dewey-defeats-truman