Any election victory can be seen from a variety of angles — marginal gains here, voter flips there — but the story of Joe Biden’s 2020 win, and his narrow recapturing of the northern Democratic “blue wall” states, might be best explained by vote boosts with three groups: younger voters, diverse urban voters and suburbanites.
When you look at this year’s election maps you can see the impacts of those groups on Biden’s Electoral College tally around the Great Lakes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. CONT.
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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