Global pandemic. Unemployment, evictions, and food insecurity. A Second Civil Rights Movement. Rising authoritarianism in the US and abroad, as the U.S. withdraws from the post-WWII alliances it helped to build. Wildfires, derechos, fire tornados... and murder hornets. 2020 — not yet over — has been quite a year, and there are few Presidential elections in our history that could claim to have taken place in a more fraught and precarious environment.

Mike Decelle, dean of UNH Manchester, moderates as Stephen Pimpare, principal lecturer of U.S. politics and public policy, and Melinda Negron-Gonzales, associate professor of global studies, offer analysis of the upcoming election and consider the implications for the U.S. and the world of a Biden presidency versus a Trump second term.