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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepost from 11/7: Biden beats Trump in must-win Pennsylvania to clinch 2020 victory
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The state's 20 electoral votes flipped back to Democrats four years after helping Trump win the White House.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/07/2020 11:31 AM EST
Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, clinching the Electoral College and delivering a decisive rebuke to Trump in one of the states that lifted him to the White House four years ago.
Widely seen as the most likely state to decide who would win the Electoral College, Pennsylvania was one of the most heavily contested battlegrounds in the presidential race. Biden visited it more than any other swing state, put his campaign headquarters there before the Covid-19 pandemic, and deployed former President Barack Obama, his top surrogate, to Philadelphia for his first in-person event this fall.
Trump lavished attention on Pennsylvania as well, holding a series of rallies in the state in the final week before the election.
Republicans and Democrats also fought in court for months over the states voting rules, mostly resulting in the failure of GOP efforts to restrict mail voting.
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The state's 20 electoral votes flipped back to Democrats four years after helping Trump win the White House.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/07/2020 11:31 AM EST
Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, clinching the Electoral College and delivering a decisive rebuke to Trump in one of the states that lifted him to the White House four years ago.
Widely seen as the most likely state to decide who would win the Electoral College, Pennsylvania was one of the most heavily contested battlegrounds in the presidential race. Biden visited it more than any other swing state, put his campaign headquarters there before the Covid-19 pandemic, and deployed former President Barack Obama, his top surrogate, to Philadelphia for his first in-person event this fall.
Trump lavished attention on Pennsylvania as well, holding a series of rallies in the state in the final week before the election.
Republicans and Democrats also fought in court for months over the states voting rules, mostly resulting in the failure of GOP efforts to restrict mail voting.
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Repost from 11/7: Biden beats Trump in must-win Pennsylvania to clinch 2020 victory (Original Post)
JoeOtterbein
Nov 2020
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(130,156 posts)1. THANKS!
questionseverything
(9,631 posts)2. Landslide!
Now we have to do it again in Georgia!!!!!
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)3. Since we're doing some beauteous re-living, here are a couple:
Joy REID's magnificent rant:
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/joy-reid-trump-supporters-decided-all-of-his-cruelty-was-fine-so-yeah-were-gonna-dunk-on-yall-today/
Joy Reid: Trump Supporters Decided All of His Cruelty Was Fine, So Yeah, Were Gonna Dunk on Yall Today
.... Reid revealed she was in the middle of getting a covid test when she heard the news and said she subsequently walked to Times Square. And honestly, its like a new day, Lawrence. Its like the city has woken up from a slumber.
Reid then responded to people saying dont dunk on Trump supporters today.
Sorry, thats what people are going to do, she said. ....
We have had four years of mass deaths. 240,000 of our fellow Americans have died and Donald Trump was vowing to kill another several million of us through herd immunity. He didnt care about the dead. He ripped 1,000 children from their parents without a second thought.
Stephen Miller has been installed in the White House for four years practicing open, vile racism and xenophobia and making it policy. Millions of federal employees, hundreds of thousands of them have been barred from talking about systemic racism. They reversed policy on everything that was designed to make this country more fair for people like me. My immigrant family members, none of them could have come here under the rules that they placed against people who are Black and brown and coming from countries that are majority Muslim. They banned Muslim travelers, grandmas that wanted to see their grandkids.
The cruelty, the hideousness of this administration. The awfulness. They were threatening to take away my friends that are gay, that are married, and invalidate their marriages. They put in a Supreme Court that threatened to take away our health care, our desperately-needed health care. All my kids except one would be off my health care if they accomplished that.
They are threatening our lives. They dont mind if we die. So Im sorry if the Trump supporters are feeling a little sad this morning, but, yes, were going to dunk on yall, because you 70 million people said all of that was fine, do more of that, just give me a few more pennies in tax cuts if you dont make a million dollars a year. You didnt even really get anything. All you got was cruelty towards people like me.
This country is awake. We finally feel like we can breathe, Reid added. ....
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And my bit:
My letter to the editor - and to GD?
Questions continue about Donald Trump: What if he never concedes? What if he refuses to leave? What if he goes berserk with Executive Orders, Pardons himself, or unleashes the Proud Boys?
The answer is: It doesnt matter. His choices are to find some grace or sulk his way out or be frogmarched out, its up to him.
Whatever part of the country has moved on. No individual or group can stop the moving on of any kind.
We are free to go back to our daily lives without the dread of what the tweet at dawn was or keep adding to the list of his latest outrageous publicity stunts. It doesnt matter, but actually never mattered.
If it comes down to the frogmarch, no big deal. It will just be his last stunt and we can rubberneck it briefly and immediately move on past it.
This is not gloating or mean spiritedness and theres no expectation that his followers will move on constructively. Even if they choose to wreak havoc, it might be suspected that they will have their own secret relief.
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