I think it’s too early to call this one, but it looks like Biden has probably won. <\/p>\n
Whoever wins, they will claim a mandate to do something or other. <\/p>\n
What mandate do you think they have? <\/p>\n
If Biden has won, I think the only real mandate he has is to not be Donald Trump. <\/p>\n
If Trump has won, I think the lesson from his weak showing is to dial back his Trumpiness — which is something he probably can’t do. <\/p>\n
Beyond that, I don’t think either candidate can claim any substantive mandate. This election was about Donald Trump and nothing else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think it’s too early to call this one, but it looks like Biden has probably won. Whoever wins, they will claim a mandate to do something or other. What mandate do you think they have? If Biden has won, I think the only real mandate he has is to not be Donald Trump. If … Continue reading “What mandate would either candidate have after this election?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}