Don’t be fooled by this drawn out counting process, this *is* what a repudiation of the last 4 years look like. Biden and Harris have done something incredible here, and they absolutely have a mandate. Let me tell you how big of a deal this is. (1/x)
Despite the feeling from polls going into this, this was not our election to win. DJT is only the 4th President in the last *87* years to lose re-election, and only the *11th* ever. And his approval rating was much higher than many of those (44.7% vs. 32.6% Bush and 37.9% Carter)
“But it should have been easy with COVID!”. WRONG. Crises *help* incumbents. When people are scared they rarely choose revolutions. Iraq was a disaster and we re-elected Bush. Kerry got historic numbers and lost to Bush’s more historic numbers.
This is a great thread if you want to understand how COVID in no way guaranteed an electoral boost for us. Many people don’t even know DJT didn’t support masks:
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1323970380403531783?s=21
Now, consider that Biden and Harris pulled this off *without* a live convention while DJT used THE WHITE HOUSE as his stage. Biden did this without the benefit of a full event schedule while DJT continued events normally. Biden beat DJT running a *half campaign*.
“But half the country still voted for Trump!” WRONG.
70M people is 21% of the country. The people that can’t vote count as people too. You think those people (the disenfranchised, the young, the permanent residents, etc.) are for the nationalist guy? You got to speak for them.
70M people is 21% of the country. The people that can’t vote count as people too. You think those people (the disenfranchised, the young, the permanent residents, etc.) are for the nationalist guy? You got to speak for them.
And of course, the Electoral College handicap. More people wanted Clinton in 2016 and it didn’t matter. But this time around, we will have huge EC win, and THE MOST VOTES CAST FOR A PRESIDENT EVER. We fucking flipped *Georgia*. This is what a rebuke of DJT looks like.
So make no mistake, we didn’t “narrowly avoid defeat,” we WON. SO NOW ACT LIKE IT. Let’s start by making a final push to take the Senate. Winning on January 5th can be the difference between fixing this mess next year instead of 2022. secure.actblue.com/donate/getmitch
Oh one last thing: after massive BLM protests that the right explicitly tried to use to divide us, we chose our first WOMAN OF COLOR VP. Our kids are going to read about this election & ask us how it felt today. Let’s take some time to be present so we can tell them in detail. ❤️
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