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No, Trump Did Not Win in a Landslide—Nor Did He Secure a Mandate
The Nation ^
| November 12, 2024
| Joan Walsh
Posted on 11/12/2024 4:47:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As blue Western states and cities finish counting votes, it looks like the popular vote “landslide” projected for Donald Trump last week turned out to be a trickle. When all the votes are counted, he will end up with a margin of roughly two points over Vice President Kamala Harris. Presidents Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972 won more than 60 percent of the popular vote; Ronald Reagan in 1984 won 58 percent. Those were landslides.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a
bad outcome for Democrats. Trump won all seven swing states, netting himself 312 Electoral College votes (to Biden’s 306 in 2020). Democrats lost control of the Senate; the GOP now has 52 seats, and will likely wind up with 53 when the race between incumbent Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey and Connecticut corporate titan David McCormick is finally called (provisional ballots are still being counted). It will probably hold the House, by a slim margin.
So yes, none of this is good news. But it’s not the top-to-bottom repudiation of Democrats as it first looked like, and the way to respond is not to launch a civil war within the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, that has already begun. Centrists blame the doctrine of “woke,” with particular ire for trans Americans (we see you,
New York Rep. Tom Suozzi); leftists say
Democrats abandoned the working class (we hear you, once again, Senator Bernie Sanders). Both positions are wrong.
Others point fingers at the Harris campaign. Meanwhile, much of the media hypes Trump’s win as a landslide, which would seem to validate his racist, anti-worker agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: bs; communists; fakenews; itwasalandslide; joanwalsh; media; mediabias; tds; tdsinsanity; trump
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:00:19 PM PST
by
Revel
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Whatever you say lady. Another case of "the oversized glasses" don't make you look smarter.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:01:53 PM PST
by
DAC21
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sure Joan, just keep telling yourself that.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:03:27 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If Kamala had won they would be calling it a landslide, and saying she has a mandate to squash free speech and let millions more criminals across the border.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump has lead about at least 5% and the remaining votes are mainly in California.
YES he won a landslide for most of the country. The Nation can just cry about it for awhile.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:06:21 PM PST
by
Blogger
To: JayGalt
"...is a liberal American political pundit and journalist." "liberal"???
BS! She is a flaming POS fellow traveler...
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Haha pmsdnc is up for sale hopefully Elon buys it, cnn laying off hundreds. TRUMP has senate and house, yup no landslide 😎
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:08:12 PM PST
by
blitz128
To: Fledermaus
Don’t leave out...
Trump won all seven swing states
312 Electoral College votes (to Biden’s 306 in 2020)
Then they spew “which would seem to validate his racist, anti-worker agenda” and then immediately dive into an analysis based on... race?
“”votes of white male working class (while exit polls are not to be entirely relied upon, the finding that in the 10 states NBC polled this year, Trump won Latino men 55–43 must be noted). Advocates for the female working class, especially women of color, saw what President Harris would do for those workers.””
Oh look, they squeezed in gender too!
.
I swear these idiots do not know when to just SHUT UP.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:08:16 PM PST
by
TLI
(ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Joan Walsh, drooling leftist, has been on my radar screen for quite a few years.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:08:32 PM PST
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: hellinahandcart
Notice the birth date.
I’m older, so I’m wiser. :-D
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:09:42 PM PST
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This article is straight comedy cope.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:12:39 PM PST
by
Drew68
(Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
To: sauropod
He had to take on the whole lying vote fabricating deepstate. He won. Take away all the fraud and it was a landslide and a mandate.
To: sauropod
He had to take on the whole lying vote fabricating deepstate. He won. Take away all the fraud and it was a landslide and a mandate.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“So yes, none of this is good news. But it’s not the top-to-bottom repudiation of Democrats as it first looked like, and the way to respond is not to launch a civil war within the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, that has already begun.”
Oh look. Another leftist election denier in total denial that they got slaughtered and lost ALL THREE BRANCHES of government and many of their previously ‘blue’ areas went red for Trump, with blacks and Hispanics and other people of color voting AGAINST the radical, Marxist left Democrats.
So... apparently Orange Man ain’t so bad after all, eh? And as for that civil war within the rat party... stop threatening us with a good time....
because I, for one, can’t take much more (winning). The ongoing celebrating is killing me!
To: AndyJackson
It was an inside joke to my wife.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:18:25 PM PST
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hey Joan, denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:19:24 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(I "earned" the same number of delegates during the primaries in 2020 and 2024 as Harris.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Remember when Obama told republicans to sit in the back and be quiet? - You have to win elections before you have any say is about what he told us.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:19:32 PM PST
by
tsowellfan
(Is reality plagiarizing the Bee?)
To: DAC21
AaAHHHHH! The dreaded Karen.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:22:23 PM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes he did and yes he did go away you are embarrassing yourself.
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posted on
11/12/2024 5:24:37 PM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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