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DMN:'Trump May Never Concede, But Time For Republicans To Move On'


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While they still have their integrity and respect for democracy intact, although some of you may already have gone around the bend. 

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2020/11/18/trump-may-never-concede-but-republicans-need-to-move-on/

OPINION

Trump may never concede, but Republicans need to move on

Questioning the legitimacy of the institutions you hope to lead is not a smart election strategy.

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 10, 2020.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 10, 2020.(Carolyn Kaster)

By Dallas Morning News Editorial

2:00 AM on Nov 18, 2020

 

In the sweep of American politics, no one alive today has witnessed what the country is now experiencing. After a hard-fought and contentious presidential election, one marked by the oddities of running for office during a pandemic, the result was close, but produced a clear winner. Nonetheless, the campaign goes on as one candidate — a sitting president — continues on as if there were credible grounds for contesting the election results as they are known today.

Now it is true that no one is empowered by the Constitution to call the election before votes are certified at the state level, and that the presidential election isn’t officially over until the Electoral College has spoken. But it is also true that the ballots have been tallied across the country, and the results of those tallies have produced three striking facts:

  • The Democratic candidate for president will win enough Electoral College votes to be the next president of the United States.
  • No systemic or widespread incidents of voter fraud have been discovered to cast the election results into doubt, which is why no real claims are advancing in federal court.
  • The results gave down-ballot Republicans election victories in the House (where they picked up seats) and the Senate (where they are tantalizing close to retaining control). So to believe there was widespread fraud is to disbelieve the results of one race (the presidential election) while accepting the results of other races on the same ballots cast across the country.

In fact, it’s fair to assume a dynamic very different from widespread fraud is now playing out. After four years in office, Donald Trump is now waging a new kind of campaign after having narrowly lost his bid for a second term. He’s laying the groundwork for a rematch in 2024 or to maintain a base of political power as he decides his options in the coming year.

 

Elections have consequences, and having won the presidency four years ago, Donald Trump has the ability and the power to wage such a campaign today. But in our system, his position isn’t the only one of power and influence. Nor is it the only one that will now shape the political landscape for the runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate this coming year, for congressional elections in two years, or for the presidential election four short years from now. In other words, if the elections of 2016 have consequences, so do the elections of 2020. And here, what will shape the landscape more than a concession speech from the current occupant of the Oval Office is the actions elected officials will take in the weeks and months ahead.

Those who work to undermine the legitimacy of the very institution of government they seek to lead may earn outsider status, but they also erode their own chances at electoral legitimacy. Claiming fraud where it isn’t being found and questioning results that are clear only undermine efforts to protect ballot integrity and serve to reveal who is willing to disengage from reality for immediate political gain. We doubt voters will likely show a willingness to support such disengagement. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz can cry wolf, but it doesn’t mean voters will believe in him if he again seeks the highest office in the land.

 

So where is all of this headed? We foresee two directions. Some politicians will opt to continue to sow division, and questioning election results seems to be one place where that will start. But to us, that seems like a dead end. On Jan. 20, a new president will take the oath of office, and he’s already offering a different leadership style than the man who lost his bid for four more years. Like it or not, the wheels of government will turn and those willing to govern will be the ones turning them.

And that brings us to the second direction. Other elected officials will opt to govern, to make hard policy choices that address pressing national problems. Republicans have again been entrusted to lead Texas. They’ve also gained seats in state legislatures across the country and may control half of Congress. That’s enough of a perch to show how the party will govern if entrusted with greater power two or four years from now. Similarly, Democrats have a hold on power — the White House and the other half of Congress for starters — and will therefore have the opportunity to put their own governing ideas into concrete policy proposals.

We happen to believe that many of the ideas the Democrats talked about during the campaign were rejected by voters. Talk of packing the U.S. Supreme Court likely rebounded to Trump’s benefit. So too did talk of abolishing the Electoral College, which by the way is in the process of showing its worth now in making the results of this election exceedingly clear for anyone willing to sort through the details. But the reverse will also be true for Republicans who decide not to abide by the will of voters as expressed in vote tallies.

Our advice to Democrats is to reject ideas from the far left, something this country has a tendency to vote down. And our advice to Republicans is not to indulge the fiction that the election was stolen. To do so is to squander something that can never be taken from you without your consent, and that is your integrity.

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18 minutes ago, JBizzle said:

Sure sign we have too large a government that the incoming president needs to transition before the vote is certified which is over a month before his inauguration.

We have issues that need addressing NOW that the current occupant can't be bothered with on his way back to the golf course. 

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On 11/18/2020 at 9:42 PM, CarthDawg77 said:

Never give up, Dave....Ever.

I'm good either way, of course i know for a fact that my life will be far better if Trump remains the President.  I've lived through Carter and BHO, my father lived through Hoover and F.D.R. who were both terrible Presidents.  I can live through Biden's administration if need be, so I'll endure.  

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On 11/19/2020 at 2:37 PM, PepeSilvia said:

So much ignorance in one disfigured sentence. 

Barry even posted a story about the crying an whining of Biden's transition team not being able to get in fast enough.  I've stated in that thread that Biden should go ahead and take office today, and we we'll see how his great handling of the coming season of death will be according to his experts.  

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This here....

After a manual hand-recount of roughly 5 million votes cast in the presidential election, Georgia state election officials confirmed President-elect Joe Biden received more votes than President Trump in the state.

Georgia’s secretary of state ordered the recount as a part of the risk-limiting audit process to ensure the public’s trust in the outcome of the presidential vote in the state, where Biden led by 12,284 votes, according to the audited results. That resulted in a 0.0099 percent variation from the original margin, they said.

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So, let me see if I understand this.  Biden, Democrats, the Liberal Media, and Barry, who badmouthed and degraded Trump for four years now want Trump and all conservatives to roll over and play dead after the Left pulled a coup (won an election via voter fraud).   Yes.   Sure.  😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

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4 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

This here....

After a manual hand-recount of roughly 5 million votes cast in the presidential election, Georgia state election officials confirmed President-elect Joe Biden received more votes than President Trump in the state.

Georgia’s secretary of state ordered the recount as a part of the risk-limiting audit process to ensure the public’s trust in the outcome of the presidential vote in the state, where Biden led by 12,284 votes, according to the audited results. That resulted in a 0.0099 percent variation from the original margin, they said.

There was no audit, just a recount. Of course...

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