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Election Results 2020: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Election 2020: what a Biden victory could mean for America | The Economist

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Biden seems like a  person without own position: The democratic squad is going to form him

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Biden seems like a  person without own position: The democratic squad is going to form him

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Progressive Democrats like "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., are already gearing up to lobby a Biden-Harris administration for policies like the Green New Deal and Medicare for all.

Before the election, Sanders said that left-wing lawmakers and supporters need to push Democratic President-elect Joe Biden to be the "most progressive president" since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
SANDERS TELLS 'SQUAD' OF NEED TO PUSH BIDEN TO BE 'MOST PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT SINCE FDR
"Our first task we've got to defeat the worst president in modern history in this country and number two we organize our people to make sure that Biden becomes the most progressive president since FDR," he said in an interview with the left-wing group of freshman congresswomen known as the "Squad."

Ocasio-Cortez waded into possible Democratic cabinet picks this week, telling the New York Times she opposes giving power to Obama ally and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

"We must govern with integrity and accountability. Laquan McDonald's life mattered," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter on Monday, referencing McDonald, a black teen who was shot by a white police officer in 2014, when Emanuel was in office.

"What we understood in this election was that we had one job," "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told CNN on Sunday. "That one job was to get rid of Trump and to give ourselves the opportunity and the privilege to lobby the new administration on the policies that we know resonate with so many people."

Although more moderate Democrats are blaming the progressive wing of their party for losses in the House, Omar claimed President-elect Joe Biden's choice of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., "won" Democrats the election.

"We not only celebrated a historic win of the first Black woman, South Asian daughter of immigrants who will become our next vice president but we also celebrated the message he sent in putting her on the ticket as a cosponsor of the Green New Deal and Medicare for all," Omar said on Sunday. "Her being on top of that ticket did not cost us the election. It actually won us the election."

Harris may be ranked as the nation's most liberal senator, but that won't ensure progressive victories in a Biden administration, political science expert Glen Duerr, who teaches international studies at Cedarville University, told Fox News.

"Biden will throw bones [to the progressives], but he's going to have to be very cautious," Duerr said. "In the campaign, he showed he's not ideologically fixed. ... Democrats really could have gone with anyone else. Biden, I think, said enough to bring in the progressives but made no major promises along the 'squad' platform."
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Duerr predicted "a layer of disappointment" for progressives over the next four years as Biden steers clear of the Green New Deal and Medicare for all.

However, Biden may try to placate progressives on issues like a federal minimum wage.

"$15 an hour minimum wage isn't going to fly in Ohio or the Midwest" but Biden could do something "similar to what Secretary Hillary Clinton proposed in 2015 and 2016, building toward a minimum wage," Duerr said.

Bowing to progressives could lead to even more trouble for Biden if they don't think he's gone far enough, Duerr added, citing the example of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who committed to a 50-50 gender-split Cabinet. Trudeau still faced accusations he wasn't feminist enough.
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"Women reporters asked, 'Why are men in the most powerful positions and women in less powerful positions?'" Duerr said. "[Biden's] talked about his cabinet being the most diverse. That's a double-edged sword within the Democratic Party."
Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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How Sanders, AOC and 'The Squad' plan to make Biden the most liberal president ever

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Progressive Democrats like "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., are already gearing up to lobby a Biden-Harris administration for policies like the Green New Deal and Medicare for all. Before the election, Sanders said left-wing lawmakers and supporters need to push Democratic President-elect Joe Biden to be the "most progressive president" since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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a columnist with a very negative valuation of trump

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a columnist with a very negative valuation of trump

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It's over. Donald Trump is history.

For millions of Americans - a majority, by almost 5m popular votes - it's a time for celebration and relief. Trump's cruelty, vindictiveness, non-stop lies, corruption, rejection of science, chaotic incompetence and gross narcissism brought out the worst in America. He tested the limits of American decency and democracy. He is the closest we have come to a dictator.

Democracy has had a reprieve, a stay of execution. We have another chance to preserve it, and restore what's good about America.

It will not be easy. The social fabric is deeply torn. Joe Biden will inherit a pandemic far worse than it would have been had Trump not played it down and refused to take responsibility for containing it, and an economic crisis exacting an unnecessary toll.

The worst legacy of Trump's term of office is a bitterly divided America.

Judging by the number of ballots cast in the election, Trump's base of support is roughly 70 million. They were angry even before the election (as were Biden supporters). Now, presumably, they are angrier.

He didn't just pour salt into our wounds. He planted grenades in them

The nation was already divided when Trump became president - by race and ethnicity, region, education, national origin, religion and class. But he exploited these divisions to advance himself. He didn't just pour salt into our wounds. He planted grenades in them.

It is a vile legacy. Although Americans have strongly disagreed over what we want the government to do, we at least agreed to be bound by its decisions. This meta-agreement required enough social trust for us to regard the views and interests of those we disagree with as equally worthy of consideration as our own. But Trump continuously sacrificed that trust to feed his own monstrous ego.

Elections usually end with losing candidates congratulating winners and graciously accepting defeat, thereby demonstrating their commitment to the democratic system over the particular outcome they fought to achieve.

But there will be no graciousness from Trump, nor a concession. He is incapable of either.

He will be president for another two and a half months. He is still charging that the election was stolen from him, mounting legal challenges and demanding recounts, maneuvers that could prevent states from meeting the legal deadline of 8 December for choosing electors.

If he continues, America could find itself in a situation similar to what it faced in 1876, when claims about ballot fraud forced a special electoral commission to decide the winner, just two days before the inauguration.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump refuses to attend Biden's inauguration and stages a giant rally instead.

It could go on for years, Trump keeping the nation's attention, remaining the center of controversy and divisiveness

He'll send firestorms of aggrieved messages to his followers - questioning Biden's legitimacy and urging that they refuse to recognize his presidency. This will be followed by months of rallies and tweets containing even more outlandish charges: plots against Trump and America by Biden, Nancy Pelosi, "deep-state" bureaucrats, "socialists", immigrants, Muslims, or any other of his standard foes.

It could go on for years, Trump keeping the nation's attention, remaining the center of controversy and divisiveness, sustaining his followers in perpetual fury, titillating them with the possibility he might run again in 2024, making it harder for Biden to do any of the national healing he's promised and the nation so desperately needs.

How can Biden heal the nation when Trump doesn't want it healed?

The media (including Twitter, Facebook, and even Fox News) could help. They have begun to call out Trump's lies in real time and cut off his press conferences, practices that should have started years ago. Let's hope they continue to tag his lies and otherwise ignore him - a fitting end to a reality TV president who tried to turn America into a reality warzone.

But the responsibility for healing America falls to all of us.

For starters, we'd do well to recognize and honor the selflessness we have observed during this trying time - starting with tens of thousands of election workers who have worked long hours under difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances.

Add to them the hospital workers across the nation saving lives from the scourge of Covid-19; the thousands of firefighters in the west and the emergency responders on the Gulf coast battling the consequences of climate change; the civil servants getting unemployment checks out to millions of jobless Americans; social workers dealing with family crises in the wake of evictions and other hardships; armies of volunteers doling out food from soup kitchens.

These are the true heroes of America. They embody the decency of this land. They are doing the healing, rebuilding trust, reminding us who we are and who we are not.

Donald Trump is not America.

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How can Biden heal America when Trump doesn't want it healed? | Robert Reich

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It's over. Donald Trump is history. For millions of Americans - a majority, by almost 5m popular votes - it's a time for celebration and relief. Trump's cruelty, vindictiveness, non-stop lies, corruption, rejection of science, chaotic incompetence and gross narcissism brought out the worst in America.

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very negative evaluation of democrats' push for mail-in voting

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Blue State Blues (Breitbart News, 06-11-2020)

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very clear, negative valuation of trump

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fact check: trump tells series of egregious falsehoods in election night address - cnnpolitics

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Fact check: Trump makes series of egregious false claims in Election Night address

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President Donald Trump made a series of egregious false claims in his Election Night address at the White House -- falsely claiming he had already won re-election, that he had already won states that were actually still up in the air at the time, and that his opponents were perpetuating a fraud.