Joe Biden’s Almost Impossible Task

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November 6, 2020

Published in Der Spiegel
(Germany) on 6 November 2020
by Matthias Gebauer, Roland Nelles, René Pfister, Ralf Neukirch and Alexander Sarovic (link to original link to original)

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