An interesting fact to absorb this morning.
Total vote for Donald Trump:
2016: 63 million
2020: 66 million (so far)
Americans watched Donald Trump for 4 years in the White House & yesterday millions more of them voted for Trump than did before seeing him as president.
Total vote for Donald Trump:
2016: 63 million
2020: 66 million (so far)
Americans watched Donald Trump for 4 years in the White House & yesterday millions more of them voted for Trump than did before seeing him as president.
2/ Biden has 69 million votes.
It seems likely at this point that Biden will, in fact, be president.
But if there's any doubt about the sense in which the 2020 election was a referendum on Trump and the Trump presidency, there was no repudiation.
It seems likely at this point that Biden will, in fact, be president.
But if there's any doubt about the sense in which the 2020 election was a referendum on Trump and the Trump presidency, there was no repudiation.
3/ …Trump's vote total yesterday in fact exceeds Hillary Clinton's vote total in 2016.
• Trump, 2016: 63.0 million votes
• Clinton, 2016: 65.9 milllion
• Trump, 2020: 66.5 million (and rising)
• Biden, 2020: 69.2 million (and rising)
• Trump, 2016: 63.0 million votes
• Clinton, 2016: 65.9 milllion
• Trump, 2020: 66.5 million (and rising)
• Biden, 2020: 69.2 million (and rising)
4/ A blunter way of thinking about it, given what the campaign, the polling & the commentary has been like the last month:
Americans watched Trump as president for four years, and millions of voters who didn't vote for him in 2016 went to the polls to vote for him this time.
Americans watched Trump as president for four years, and millions of voters who didn't vote for him in 2016 went to the polls to vote for him this time.
5/ That in some sense speaks to the American project now.
We are unfathomable to ourselves.
We need the kind of leadership that can find our common values — and those are wide & deep.
We are unfathomable to ourselves.
We need the kind of leadership that can find our common values — and those are wide & deep.
6/ As we send our 6-year-olds to first grade, we all have the same hopes for them:
Economic opportunity. A contribution to the world. Satisfying work. The chance to grow up, find love, & raise their own ... first graders.
That's the wide area of American hopes and commonality.
Economic opportunity. A contribution to the world. Satisfying work. The chance to grow up, find love, & raise their own ... first graders.
That's the wide area of American hopes and commonality.
7/ Donald Trump does not, in fact, speak to that.
Joe Biden has not been very eloquent on that.
But that's what we will help bridge the gaps on other ionizing issues.
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Joe Biden has not been very eloquent on that.
But that's what we will help bridge the gaps on other ionizing issues.
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