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During 23 years with The BBC, and a 41 year journalistic career (when he was trained to use clear and simple language, avoiding jargon), our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry has covered innumerable votes (indeed his first television interview was with a Welsh MP during the 1987 campaign), so looks with fascination at the US election where Trump has already declared victory.
You can be sure one person may be more aggrieved than most at the moment – Joe Biden.
After all he dropped out because Kamala Harris had a better chance of victory.
He clung on almost to the end (he is known for his obstinacy), and one Democrat told me: “He beat Donald Trump before and can do so again”.
President Biden, however, was warned that the polls looked grim, and Mr Trump would score a resounding victory over him.
Yet a miss is as good as a mile, as they DON’T say in politics!
The memories of Phil’s astounding, decades long award-winning career in journalism (when politics often brought difficult results) as he was gripped by the rare neurological disabling condition Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been released in a major book ‘A Good Story’. Order it now.
Tomorrow – how during his lengthy career, for Phil official apologies were a constant source of hilarity.
