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Andy Meek
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- President-elect Joe Biden's defeat of Donald Trump was certainly the biggest outcome of all the 2020 election results.
- Democrats should be cautious about celebrating too much, however, because there are trend lines within the election results that are quite worrisome for the party.
- Down the ballot, there were losses aplenty for Democrats — and the party will enter the Biden era with Republican control still in place at the local level in much of the country.
Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden, activists across the progressive spectrum and Democrats of all stripes took swipes on social media at President Trump in the aftermath of Election Day over his obviously doomed-to-fail quest to invalidate Biden's clear electoral victory. The activists included people like actress Alyssa Milano, who sent the following public tweet to the president about the 2020 election results: "Hey, @realDonaldTrump! Question for you -- if the Democrats fixed the election why didn’t they win the Senate and keep the seats (in) the house that they lost?"
It's a query that you could actually argue isn't being pondered as enough as it should be, given the preponderance of media attention focused on Biden's transition in advance of his taking office come January 20 -- and President Trump's continued refusal to concede the race and let the wheels of the transition process start turning. Along those lines, Trump has filed impossible-to-win lawsuits in several states challenging the outcome of the election, has refused to allow the Biden team access to necessary transition-related resources, and the whole thing has gotten embarrassing enough that even staunch Trump backers like South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham support letting Biden receive a presidential-level intelligence briefing now. Indeed, Biden's win represented a major upset of the sort not seen often in presidential politics -- the toppling of an incumbent. But Milano's tweet also contains within it a darker truth that, in spite of the White House win, actually portends a somewhat ominous horizon for Democrats if they rush forward headlong into whatever 2021 entails.
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People aren’t talking enough about this ticking time bomb facing Democrats originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 10:18:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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