Would Joe Biden Be President Without The Ringer’s Bill Simmons?

What The Bleep?
4 min readFeb 1, 2021

“Every piece of this, every bit of volunteering, every donation it mattered. In these close places, it made a difference,” Jon Lovett proclaimed on the November 6th episode of the hit podcast Pod Save America. Lovett and his co-hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor were celebrating Joe Biden’s victory. Despite winning the popular vote by over seven million votes, Biden beat Trump by only 43,000 votes in Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona. Eking out a victory required enthusiasm on the left to match the unprecedented voter turnout on the…

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