Joe Biden is winning the 2020 election by just hiding in his basement

For the better part of a year, pundits declared that Joe Biden was on a cusp of collapse. Yet the former vice president dominated the Democratic presidential primary. Now he’s won it, far more handily and decisively than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, but the coronavirus has prematurely ended his victory lap. He is pivoting to a general election brought to an effective standstill.

Biden’s campaign strategy has now become to lock himself in his Wilmington, Delaware, basement, tempering his critiques of President Trump and posting feel-good videos with his family. Once again, the pundit class has declared this a losing strategy, and once again, the polls indicate that it’s actually working.