Edwards: Bush election wasn't a mandate
Senator's first public comments discuss vote, wife's breast cancer
TIM FUNK
Observer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - In his first public comments about the election results, Sen. John Edwards told NBC's Katie Couric on Thursday that voters did not give President Bush a mandate and that the country remains deeply divided.
"I don't think he has a mandate. He's wrong (to say that he does)," the N.C. Democrat who ran as vice president said on the "Today" show. "If you look at the election results, it was -- by any reasonable measure -- a very close election ... We can only hope -- although I haven't seen evidence of it yet -- that he'll recognize that there's a lot of division and a lot of important work to be done in this country."
Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, was equally critical of Bush's post-election stance: "If (Sen.) John Kerry had won, he would have had exactly the same responsibility to pull this country together, not to say, `My way or the highway.' "
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