Did He Deserve A Second Term

The 2020 election is over.  I'm not sure all the people have spoken but on Saturday the preliminary results were clear enough to most people that Joe Biden was declared the winner of the race for President of the United States.

Some will say the election was close, and in at least a few states the election was closer than polls suggested. 

Seventy five million voters came out to vote against Donald J. Trump.  No it wasn't the 67 senators needed to convict Donald J. Trump but even a somewhat tarnished vote by 52 Republican Senators was needed to save the President from being removed from office in February 2020.

The latest raw vote count indicates over 50% of the voters and over 50% of the Electoral College voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. 

If we were talking about the popular vote only: Hillary Clinton would have been elected in 2016 and Al Gore would have been elected in 2000.  Who really knows what might or might or might not have happened had those elections not been adversely affected by the Electoral College.  I'll leave that to the political fiction writers now and in the future.

I still have a difficult time understanding how the Republican Party nominated Donald J. Trump in 2016.  It was a Republican problem back then and it still hasn't been resolved.  Donald J. Trump wasn't a Republican then and isn't now.  Missouri(the show me state) had Ted Cruz and Donald J. Trump finishing in an almost dead heat with both candidates receiving about 40 % of the vote in the 2016 primary .  Party politics are a unique animal.  George McGovern begat a second term for Richard Nixon in 1972 and so it goes.

Republicans, the ball is in your court to clean up the mess the Trump Presidency has been.

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