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Joe Biden’s Non-Mandate: He may win the White House, but his party and progressive ideas lost.
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 5, 2020 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 11/06/2020 4:55:13 AM PST by karpov

As the votes continue to be counted in swing states, Joe Biden has the best chance to become the next President. But the closer we inspect the nationwide election returns, the more the result looks like a defeat for the rest of his Democratic Party and especially for the progressive agenda. Mr. Biden would take office without a mandate beyond addressing Covid-19 and not being Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Biden will win the popular vote, and he may eke out a narrow win in the Electoral College. In essence he’ll have reversed Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 with hair’s-breath advantages in Wisconsin and Michigan, and perhaps Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. None of them will be by large margins. He will have vanquished an incumbent President, which is no easy task.

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But look down the ballot, or across the country, and Mr. Biden’s potential victory looks remarkably limited and personal. Most new Presidents enter office having swept allies into Congress and statehouses as the public embraces his agenda and vision for America. Certainly this was true of Barack Obama in 2008 and to a lesser extent Mr. Trump in 2016. Mr. Biden had no such coattails.

Democrats lost seats in the House, giving up some of the suburban gains they made in 2018 while continuing to struggle in rural areas. The full results won’t be in for weeks, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi may find her majority cut in half or more to the smallest in 20 years.

Senate control may be determined by a Jan. 5 runoff for two seats in Georgia. But the GOP already looks to have won 50 seats to 48 for Democrats, who had expected to ride public dislike for Mr. Trump into the majority.

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To: karpov

Oh, that always stops them. Power is power. They don’t need no stumbling mandate with a pen and phone.


21 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:41 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: LoveMyFreedom

And if you don’t watch out, they will also steal the 2 Senate seats in GA and pack the SCOTUS.


22 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:41 AM PST by RonnG ('')
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To: headstamp 2; cdcdawg

This is the “conservative” opinion side of WSJ, too. Strassel does some good stuff but they are just as useless as the hack liberal reporters.


23 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:46 AM PST by lodi90
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To: cdcdawg

The Return of the NEO-CON Empire


24 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:54 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: karpov

No, this election is NOT over! You can’t tell me the same group of people who elected 5+ new republican house members also pulled the lever for Biden. NO WAY!!! We need to keep pushing the fraud argument and encourage Trump and our representatives to continue the fight. It’s far from over!


25 posted on 11/06/2020 5:04:27 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: headstamp 2

If you work in IT don’t buy that new car. Get ready for terrible times.


26 posted on 11/06/2020 5:04:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: eastexsteve

35m50s to 39m06s: Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group. (paraphrasing)
at 37m if you were told over summer that Trump’s party would gain House seats and hold the Senate, what would you have projected the election result to have been on the presidential level?

Cahaly: I would have told you it means Trump was going to win BIG. and if I said that, I would have been ridiculed, just like I was ridiculed when I said there were shy Trump voters and corruption in Philadelphia.

Bitchute: Ingraham Angle 5 November 2020
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QkGYpEiKu7JE/


27 posted on 11/06/2020 5:05:24 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Without Trump the the GOP is a dead party..has no future

If Trump loses or wins he should start a MAGA party...get everyone who voted for him to signup....we only support MAGA people...

and tell the GOP you want are vote we want results or we put up are own candidates...

working people will support it...Hispanic will support it... Black will support it.. ExDemocrats will support it....they will never support the GOP...they will just stay home......

other wise the GOP is dead


28 posted on 11/06/2020 5:05:52 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: MAGAthon

5 Nov: Gateway Pundit: EXCLUSIVE: Poll Watcher in Michigan Kicked Out of Detroit Hall But Not Before They Obtained Evidence of Potential Fraud
by Joe Hoft
One poll worker was expelled from the TCF Center where Wayne County/Detroit ballots are being counted, when they caught this snap...PIC

You can read seven out of eight voter names listed on the screen image below – all their birthdays showed as January 1, 1900...
What’s interesting is that all these people exist, but with different birth years and none of them appear to be regular voters...

The electronic system should include the most accurate data. Experts when asked said there was no reason this data should be wrong as displayed in this photo...
The suspicion is that thousands of individuals are entered into the database with the birth year of 1900. We saw cases of this yesterday. These may be duplicate entries of real people. We don’t know...

The voter rolls in Michigan should be obtained now and all records with 1900 years of birth identified and compared to ballots received.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-poll-watcher-michigan-kicked-detroit-hall-not-obtained-evidence-potential-fraud/


29 posted on 11/06/2020 5:06:00 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: karpov

30 posted on 11/06/2020 5:06:04 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

Hiden absolutely lost. Our President clearly won. If Hiden is installed, it is time for insurrection. Stealing a national election through organized crime is not an election. The polling firms, big tech companies, big media companies, postal employees, big city corrupt officials don’t get to select our President.


31 posted on 11/06/2020 5:06:07 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: laconic

I’m guessing the Clinton/Obama team is packing their bags.
The same team that pushed the Russia Collusion story on us - has colluded to take back power.


32 posted on 11/06/2020 5:06:19 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: karpov

There are no silver linings here.


33 posted on 11/06/2020 5:06:52 AM PST by riri (All of my heroes are banned from the internet)
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To: karpov

The only thing that matters is the executive.
The executive agencies have complete impunity if the executive is one of theirs, and they are willing to play hardball.
As we have seen with the “Russia” farce the Senate can’t even get simple information from the agencies, the President himself can barely do it.


34 posted on 11/06/2020 5:07:21 AM PST by buwaya
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To: karpov
Trump has won. Whatever going on now is fraud.

Same fraud is happening all over rat cities and states for years and years. Mail-in ballot just made it 10 times potent.Thats how they took over California.

Meek and stupid republicans were taking it lying down. That's why all RINOs opposed voter fraud investigation Trump was supposed to conduct after last election.

Trump is not going to take it. Let's fight to finish.

35 posted on 11/06/2020 5:07:26 AM PST by va22030
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To: LS

“...The GOP Legislators MUST get engaged in MI, GA< PA, and WI....”

But WILL they, is the real question. So far, silence from PA GOP, where we had 690K advantage on Election night. And it’s being whittled down to nothing by today.

Same in Georgia.


36 posted on 11/06/2020 5:07:57 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: karpov

Oh. The WSJ is now on board. Eff them. Trump won. Deal with it.


37 posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:16 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: Skywise
Biden didn’t win - this election is a farce

#CommanderinCheat

38 posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:34 AM PST by Kharis13
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To: karpov

If he “wins” the white house our country, as we know it, is finished.


39 posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:35 AM PST by Saveourcountry
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To: karpov

If he “wins” the white house due to blatant, obvious, in your face fraud, we are just one giant banana republic owned by the communist Chinese.


40 posted on 11/06/2020 5:10:19 AM PST by Saveourcountry
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