(CNN) At the root of President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 campaign -- and the statements he has made since winning the White House -- is this idea: Republicans are more open to compromise than they have demonstrated over these past four years. Biden expanded on that notion during an interview with a handful of political columnists just before Christmas. "Biden delivered a resounding declaration that the political center is alive and well, that he resides there, that he's always been there, and that he's going to govern from there. Or, in Biden's words: "Republicans are beginning to realize that there is a center that has to be responded to." Biden's theory of the case is that because he knows Republicans and they know him, they will cast aside their reflexive partisanship in 2021 in favor of governing philosophy dominated by solutions and compromise.

Source: CNN December 28, 2020 23:26 UTC