{"id":45122,"date":"2020-11-16T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45122"},"modified":"2020-11-16T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:00:06","slug":"bidens-unity-pitch-hits-roadblock-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45122","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s unity pitch hits roadblock &#8230; from Trump!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23fakenews%20%23riggedelection%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-biden-36-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45123\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-biden-36-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-biden-36-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-biden-36-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-biden-36-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I always knew that President-elect Biden&#8217;s promise to unify the country after four years of Donald Trump&#8217;s tenure as president would be a heavy lift.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know,\u00a0 until just recently, was that Trump himself would be piling on the weights to make that effort even more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump keeps insisting that Biden&#8217;s victory is the result of a &#8220;rigged election.&#8221; It is no such thing. The problem for the president-elect, though, is that so many millions of Trumpkins have bought into the clap trap that Trump is offering, not to mention the vast majority of Republican members of both congressional chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, you have a situation with a Democrat&#8211; that being Biden &#8212; scoring a significant vote-count and Electoral College victory over the Republican incumbent, but with Trump&#8217;s &#8220;base&#8221; of sycophantic voters and politicians buying into the phony charge of &#8220;widespread election fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Call me a cynic, but Donald Trump has zero interest in uniting the country. He has not a scintilla of care for the damage he is doing by fomenting yet another lie. He blathers about &#8220;fake news media&#8221; endorsing Biden while at the same time offering his own <em>fake news<\/em> by suggesting voter fraud where none exists.<\/p>\n<p>I have harbored some glimmer of hope that Trump eventually will concede in some fashion to the president-elect; my sense is that it won&#8217;t be a traditional concession &#8230; if it comes.<\/p>\n<p>The longer this ridiculous game goes on, the harder it might get for Donald Trump to say publicly what the rest of us know already.<\/p>\n<p>Which is that he has been drummed out of office!<\/p>\n<p>I now worry about the worsening of the difficulty of the task of unification that awaits President Biden. What&#8217;s more, I am enraged that the future former president is putting his own narcissism in front of the nation&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>So help me, Hanna. Donald Trump is a dangerous man.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23fakenews%20%23riggedelection%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I always knew that President-elect Biden&#8217;s promise to unify the country after four years of Donald Trump&#8217;s tenure as president would be a heavy lift. What I didn&#8217;t know,\u00a0 until just recently, was that Trump himself would be piling on the weights to make that effort even more difficult. Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden&#8217;s unity pitch hits roadblock &#8230; from Trump!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6885,6712,2505,6522],"class_list":["post-45122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-fraud","tag-fake-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-rigged-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45125,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122\/revisions\/45125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}