We will remember October 6, 2020 as the day that Joe Biden won the election.

This was the day all the lines were drawn and the differences between Donald Trump and Biden were seen in sharp focus. Between Monday night and Tuesday, the contrast between the two, and what they stand for, will never get clearer than this.

As Donald Trump drew his strongest lines yet between those who matter to him, and those who don’t, Joe Biden delivered what was probably the most dramatic and powerful speech of his life to present his strongest case for healing and unity of this nation.

Trump chose the balcony of the White House, giving his best imitation of Benito Mussolini and Eva Peron while telling his constituents not to let Covid-19 “dominate your life,” because, after all, the virus couldn’t beat him (at least not yet). The same could not be said for the Secret Service detail protecting him, White House staffers, donors and workers at this Bedminster Golf course — all of whom he has put in harms way.

Trump’s arrogance and shameful lack of empathy toward anyone suffering this plague, even those who may be suffering because of HIS actions, marked the deep division of the world he cares about and the world he doesn’t: Those who matter to him vs those who don’t. People who have access to the very best medical attention in the world vs. the people who depend upon the Affordable Care Act, which he seeks to end.

While there are concerns that Trump’s erratic behavior might be a side effect the the powerful drugs he had been given by his doctors to fight his infection from the Coronavirus, there were just as many people who felt this actually was his normal behavior.

Either way, the facts are the facts. As of Oct 6, he was continuing to risk exposing everyone else he worked with in the White House to the virus.

His icing on his cake was the decision he made late in the day Tuesday to order Republicans to stand down in the negotiations for Covid 19 relief until after he is re-elected. A threat to the have-nots that if they don’t re-elect him there will be nothing coming their way. I wonder how we would have felt if some of that relief money was needed to keep the Walter Reed Medical Center staff working. Since he announced this decision before the market close, Wall Street got crushed after he cancelled the talks.

Joe Biden, on the other had, spoke on the grounds of Gettysburg, PA, the site of the most important battle in the war that grew out of the last time the country was this divided and the site on which Abraham Lincoln gave his most famous speech. “He taught us this,” Biden said of Lincoln, “A house divided could not stand…Today, once again, we’re at a house divided. But that, my friends, can no longer be. We are facing too many crises, we have too much work to do, we have too bright a future to have it shipwrecked on the shores of anger and hate and division.

He eloquently posited that there is no reason that this country can’t aspire to have both law and order on one hand, and an racial equality on the other. He articulated the fears and worries of a troubled nation. “Too many Americans seek not to overcome our divisions, but to deepen them,” he added, “we must seek not to build walls, but bridges….we have to seek to come together.”

He gave a wringing defense of the principals and aspirations of this nation. He promised to do everything within his power to unify the nation to help find solutions.

He was presidential and uplifting. The contrast was chilling, and came on a day when the polls gave him his largest lead to date.

We will look back and say this is the day he won.