Saturday, November 7, 2020

Biden Wins

From News Nation:

“Joe Biden wins Pennsylvania, secures electoral votes to clinch the presidency”

Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, according to the Associated Press. Biden wins Pennsylvania, securing the necessary Electoral College votes to clinch the presidency, according to the Associated Press who called the Keystone State for Biden on Saturday. With Pennsylvania, Biden has 284 electoral votes to President Donald Trump’s 214 electoral votes as of AP’s latest race call. The battleground state’s decision to greatly expand mail-in voting caused the delay in ballot-counting. Trump, who held a 675,000-vote lead in the Keystone State early Wednesday, prematurely declared victory. “We’re winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount. We’re up 690,000 votes in Pennsylvania. These aren’t even close. It’s not like, ‘Oh, it’s close,’” Trump said during an appearance at the White House. By Wednesday afternoon, Trump’s lead had slipped down to 326,000. And by Thursday morning, his lead was down to 136,000. By 10:45 p.m. Thursday, the lead shrunk to 26,132 as mail in ballots from across the state continued to be counted. The late counted ballots were overwhelmingly in Biden’s favor, allowing the former vice president to take the lead Friday morning well before the AP called the state for Biden. One reason: Under state law, elections officials are not allowed to process mail-in ballots until Election Day. It’s a form of voting that has skewed heavily in Biden’s favor after Trump spent months claiming — without proof — that voting by mail would lead to widespread voter fraud. Trump’s campaign and Republicans are already mounting legal challenges in several states, although most are small-scale lawsuits that do not appear to affect many votes. Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits there on Thursday. President Donald Trump’s campaign has already called for a recount in Wisconsin, but several closely contested states in the presidential election may re-tally their votes if totals fall within a certain margin.

^ Sadly, this Election was not about “good against evil” but was about “the lesser of two evils.” That is why there was no “blue wave” and no “red wave.” In this case Biden was the “lesser of two evils.” I cannot forgive Trump for what he has (and has not) done about Covid-19. His actions and inactions have directly led to thousands upon thousands of Americans getting sick and dying. While the First Lady seems to have taken Covid-19 seriously – before and after she got infected herself as did her son - the same is not true with Trump. He has shrugged it off and even tried to act God-like about it. The Democrats (especially Schumer and Pelosi) did not do a good job when going against Trump – especially during his Impeachment – and the main reason the Democrats didn’t get a landslide as they believed they would was because of how they supported the violence, destruction, chaos and death that has plagued many parts of the country since last May. Americans do not feel safe and do not believe Biden or the Democrats will bring that security and law-and-order now that they are in office. One thing that is clear is that Trump will not leave the White House without causing a fuss every minute of every day until January 2021. I believe that he may try to “pull a Nixon” and resign right before January 20, 2021 which would make Mike Pence President and Pence can then pardon Trump, his family and his associates the same way that Gerald Ford did with Richard Nixon in 1974. It is really the only way for Trump and everyone associated with his time in office can avoid Local, State and Federal charges and possibly fines, penalties and maybe even jail for what he has done and not done while President. Right now I personally do not care what happens to Trump after he leaves the White House. I’m just relieved that he is leaving. It’s sad that Biden is taking his place and I’m sure that will lead to many other issues for our country and the rest of the world. I just hope he doesn’t ruin it as much as Trump has. I also hope that in the next Presidential Election in 2024 that the Democrats and the Republicans (or at least one of them) can have a good candidate that Americans can easily vote for since we didn’t have that in 2016 or in 2020. ^

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2020-election/joe-biden-wins-pennsylvania-secures-electoral-votes-to-clinch-the-presidency/

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