Jan. 20, 2021
Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Joe Biden is now the president, even as a block of roughly 35 to 40 million Republican voters remains convinced that his victory on Nov. 3 was illegitimate, despite his capture of a decisivemajority of the popular vote and the Electoral College. With jubilation in some quarters, rage in others, the electorate is split, 49-50, on whether they are “confident that Biden will make the right decisions for the country’s future,”
according to a Jan. 17 Washington Post/ABC News survey, well above Donald Trump’s 38 percent in 2017, but below Barack Obama’s 61 percent in 2009.