"I just got off the phone with President Trump and congratulated him on his victory." Weakened by his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump lost his re-election bid. To hypothesize on the impact this global upheaval has had on the past year in politics, let's look through the portal at some alternative political scenarios — things that might have happened if the pandemic had not happened. He does the same thing in 2020, despite calls for Sanders to unite behind Biden to take down Trump. The government's handling of the pandemic boosted it in the polls and the Liberals have been ahead consistently since the spring .

Source: CBC News December 29, 2020 09:00 UTC