Cook Political: Trump was only 65,009 votes away from winning -- despite Biden's 7 million vote lead

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15. And many here dismissed. . .

. . . the notion that this election was within trump's the reach through systematic voter suppression.

And some did more than "dismiss." They lambasted me whenever I sounded an alarm about how critical battling voter suppression would be to winning -- and how the margin in the polls might not be large enough to overcome suppression. I was labeled "defeatist," accused of "trying to depress turnout" (I was doing the opposite), and on, and on.

The fact is, if we don't mount a well-funded, effective, nationally coordinated effort to end long lines, voter registration purges, and the numerous other barriers that disproportionately suppress the vote of black, urban, young voters, and others who tend to vote democratic, we will remain at high risk of seeing the will of the voters thwarted in future election.