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Joe Biden made a big bet on bipartisanship. Right now, it looks like it has paid off. This is not the first time that Biden has overcome conventional wisdom. During his 2020 primary campaign, he made a bet that voters were more interested in a nominee that would return things to normal than one that was a revolutionary.

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