{"id":57816,"date":"2024-11-30T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57816"},"modified":"2024-11-30T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:49:56","slug":"no-mandate-here-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57816","title":{"rendered":"No mandate here, Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump and his collection of MAGA goons\/cultists keep yapping about a &#8220;mandate&#8221; that the Nov. 5 presidential election delivered to the GOP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Mandates are born from electoral landslides. Trump&#8217;s victory over Kamala Harris, while significant, doesn&#8217;t constitute a mandate.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1952, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower scored a landslide win over Adlai Stevenson. His mandate was to build an interstate highway system that revolutionized motor vehicle travel in this nation.<\/li>\n<li>1964, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson won election huge over Barry Goldwater and then embarked on the Great Society effort that produced landmark voting rights and civil rights legislation.<\/li>\n<li>1972, Republican President Richard Nixon swept to re-election over George McGovern and then managed the following year to end our combat involvement in the Vietnam War.<\/li>\n<li>1980, Republican Ronald Reagan capitalized on President Carter&#8217;s bad luck with the Iranian hostage crisis and high inflation. His mandate enabled him to restore national confidence in our government. Same for the mandate he secured with his 49-state landslide in 1984 over Walter Mondale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if Donald Trump is going to boast about mandates in the 2024 election, I must remind y&#8217;all that all the examples I cited came from campaigns that produced enormous popular vote margins, not to mention Electoral College wipeouts of historic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>At last count, Kamala Harris is continuing to whittle Trump&#8217;s vote margin down to less than a majority and a plurality that stands at 1.55%.<\/p>\n<p>Will the new president heed those numbers as he continues to assemble his executive team? Hardly.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and his collection of MAGA goons\/cultists keep yapping about a &#8220;mandate&#8221; that the Nov. 5 presidential election delivered to the GOP ticket. Mandates are born from electoral landslides. Trump&#8217;s victory over Kamala Harris, while significant, doesn&#8217;t constitute a mandate. To wit: 1952, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower scored a landslide win over Adlai Stevenson. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No mandate here, Donald<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[9543,9794],"class_list":["post-57816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-mandates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816","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=57816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57817,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}