Biden won, Trump lost: Ironies and Thoughts on the 2020 Election
Donald Trump is now the only American ever to lose the popular vote twice in a presidential election.
Because of suspected cheating, many Trump voters feel disenfranchised.
Now they know how Black voters have always felt.
Had Hillary won in 2016, right now we’d probably be looking at Mike Pence as president, and Republican supermajorities in the Senate and the House.
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Trump spent a large part of his presidency trying to outdo and undo Obama, whether it was a Nobel Prize, the ACA, or the Iran Nuclear deal.
It’s therefore ironic that Trump was ultimately undone by Obama’s Vice President, who beat him by 7 million votes in 2020.
Trump was also out-done by Obama who won two consecutive terms as president.
It seemed like nothing could defeat Trump. Not Hillary, not the Mueller investigation, not impeachment, not scandal. He could be slowed down — many court cases have gone against him — but not removed from office.
It ultimately took something as colossal as a pandemic to take him out.
Think about that.
On the Monday following the election, Pfizer announced a vaccine that was shown to be over 90% effective which sent markets soaring and gave much-needed hope to a pandemic-weary electorate.
Had this news come out a week earlier — the Monday before Election Day — Trump could very well have gotten the votes he needed to win re-election.
So Democrats can think of this as a sort of payback torpedo, considering that Hillary’s presidency was torpedoed when the FBI director announced the reopening of its investigation into her emails just 11 days before the 2016 election.
Timing is everything.
Trump claimed there was a conspiracy to suppress the vaccine announcement until after the election. But that was debunked.
It’s interesting to note that the election was called around noon on Saturday November 7 — just in time for the Sunday news programs.
Again, timing is everything.
And whose idea was it to have this gut-wrenching election just a few days after Halloween? Like we didn’t have enough scare in our lives?
