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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:05 AM Nov 2020

'The whole world waits' with unease as drawn-out election and Trump's unsubstantiated claims batter

America’s image

Amid the slow count, America’s global image as a model for other democracies to emulate has taken yet another battering, especially among its allies.

In Canada, lawmakers have been relatively silent on the aftermath of the vote, but election coverage continued to dominate the country’s largest newspapers, to the point that they nearly resembled U.S. dailies.

The Toronto Star described a “nagging, palpable sense of dread” that no matter who prevails, Canada has never felt “so far apart” from its southern neighbor. An editorial in the Globe and Mail, meanwhile, commented on Trump’s litigiousness.

“Better an army of lawyers than an army of Proud Boys,” the paper wrote. “Americans suing Americans? Yawn. Have at it.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/11/05/world-reaction-us-election/
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