No one has lost quite like Donald Trump in nearly 150 years

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He's pushing his doomed election fight farther than any defeated candidate since 1876

Alexander Panetta · CBC News
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 4:00 AM ET

Donald Trump is now a history-making loser.

His doomed crusade to overturn the U.S. election result crossed a milestone following electoral college meetings Monday that formally selected Joe Biden as the next president.

Not in a century and a half, since the post-Civil War era, has a defeated presidential candidate continued to challenge the results past those electoral college meetings.

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"This is off the charts," said Alexander Keyssar, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and author of a book on the history of the electoral college.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-trump-biden-electoral-college-politics-1.5841460

[PJMcK]

1. Loser's gonna keep losing (n/t)

[Chainfire]

2. He probably figures that it doesn't matter how many times he loses

he only has to win once.

[TlalocW]

3. Good

I have - like many I'm sure - a visceral reaction to Donald Trump's smug face that conveys that he thinks he is better than everyone else and better at everything than everyone else. I don't have to go into all his underhanded business practices and other behavior. We all know it. Yes, he'll have a reputation for a while as a real estate magnate until he can no longer pull off that charade, but in the long run, his legacy will be that of a loser. No one remembers that Herbert Hoover was a very financially successful mine operator - or if they do, they don't use in some desperate attempt to rehabilitate the man. Just that he lost to FDR.

TlalocW

[Mendocino]

4. Hey Donny

Stand down and shut up!

[jaxexpat]

5. We live in a time when ever greater numbers of folks have taken LSD.

Magical thinking is everywhere a potent force simply because so many subscribe to it. Trump was/is a pioneer in that sense.