Pelosi: 'President-Elect Biden' Will Have Mandate To Lead
By: KPIXTV (CBS SF/AP)
Would someone, please, explain why keeping Nancy Pelosi is any different than keeping Donald Trump?
Speaker Pelosi spent the last four years attempting to be a bigger ass than Trump. Kicking Trump out of the White House only means that Nancy Pelosi will be unopposed as the most divisive politician in Washington.
For the last four years Nancy Pelosi has been in a life-or-death fight to keep her butt embossed, leather upholstered chair paid for by taxpayers. Either kick her out or convince her to shut up.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was looking ahead to a Joe Biden presidency Friday after vote counts in the key states of Pennsylvania and Georgia showed the former vice-president now ahead of President Trump.
During her weekly press conference Friday morning, Pelosi referred to Biden as "President-elect Biden," saying he "has a strong mandate to lead, and will have a strong Democratic House with him."
"His election is historic, propelled by the biggest vote ever in the history of our country, 73.8 million, and counting, Americans - the most votes ever received by any presidential ticket in history," said Pelosi.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol on November 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
While Democrats' expectations of a "blue wave" came crashing back to earth with Trump wins in key states of Florida, Texas and Ohio, along with losses that shrunk their House majority, Pelosi sought to frame the results in a bigger picture.
"This has been a life-or-death fight for the fate of our democracy," said Pelosi. "We did not win every battle in the House, but we won the war."
As of Friday morning, Biden was on the verge of the presidency with slim but growing leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia along with leads in Nevada and Arizona. The races were still too close to call, and the Trump campaign is alleging, without evidence, fraud in vote counts happening in contested states.
Trump's campaign and Republicans were mounting legal challenges in several states, although most are small-scale lawsuits that do not appear to affect many votes.
On Thursday, President Trump launched into a litany of claims, without proof, about how Democrats were trying to unfairly deprive him of a second term. "But we think there'll be a lot of litigation because we can't have an election stolen like this," Trump said, suggesting that the Supreme Court might eventually decide the election.
Biden, for his part, has said he expects to win the election, but he counseled patience Thursday, saying: "Each ballot must be counted."
In the Senate, where Democrats also had notions of regaining the majority, the control still hangs in the balance as Republicans fought off Democratic challengers in crucial states but failed to lock down the seats needed to retain their tenuous majority. Democrats received a boost Friday with word that Democrat Mark Kelly has won in Arizona, flipping the seat from incumbent Republican Martha McSally.
Meanwhile, Democrats are coming to grips with the fact that whether or not Biden is elected, they still have a problem understanding and winning over Trump voters.
Pelosi, who easily won re-election in California's 12th District, is also seeking reelection as Speaker of the House, sending a personalized letter to each Democratic member asking for their support.
In her letter, Pelosi said she wanted to "harness the extraordinary vision, values and vibrancy of our Caucus to secure the progress that the American people deserve."
"In that spirit, I am writing to request your support to be re-elected as Speaker. I do so with the utmost respect for the diverse viewpoints of our Democratic Caucus, the gravity of this role and the urgency of the challenges ahead," Pelosi said.
Pelosi's appeal comes after House lawmakers unloaded during a caucus call Thursday — Democratic freshman Rep. Abigail Spanberger, in a so-tight race in Virginia, spoke with "passion" about the party's campaign failures, according to a person familiar with the private call and granted anonymity to discuss it.
The marathon call ran three hours, with some 30 members adding their views.
No one spoke against Pelosi, who tried to remind them, they did, in fact, win: Biden is on the verge of replacing Trump, and House Democrats are on track to keep their majority, according to another person familiar with the call and granted anonymity to discuss it.
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In the battle of the asshats, the biggest ass won. Whoopee.
Her big ass maybe dethroned. Very unhappy people right now in her caucus. The infighting has begun.
Pelosi had stuck her foot in her mouth so many times you could probably fit a 18 wheeler semi in there by now!
Payless shoes? Maybe Pelosi wants a franchise?
The biggest ass lost and it's about to waddle its way out of the White House. January 20th can't come soon enough.
Then the new more far left and far more fascist ass will take over. If you don't follow his edicts he will have his leftist Brown Shirts burn everything down. Of course it will be mostly Democratic cities they will be burning; because the idiots need to stay close to home and their parents' basements.
30 years ago Biden would have been accepted on the Republican ticket. Republicans have gone too far onto the Authoritarian side nowadays.
That comment is so f-ing ridiculous. What a total joke.
Like Reagan.
Ronald Reagan signed the California Therapeutic Abortion Act.
Like Jesus.
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34)
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He asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” (Luke 10:29-37)
Who would you like to see sent packing first under Biden. This is my list.
Trump (of course)
Any and all of relatives holding positions
Barr
Paula White
Steven Miller
McInny (sp)
Two I would put on notice that their bs will no longer be tolerated -
Moscow Mitch
Graham
tolerated by who?
They just slapped back the Democrat's million dollar efforts to defeat them.
Depends on one's perspective. My choice(s) would be Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and Nadler. But that's just me.
Pelosi and her group are not remotely interested in understanding or winning over anyone who disagrees with them.
Wasn't she supposed to give that job up?
See, I knew that's where they were going with that bit about the highest votes ever. That's bull. Biden is barely winning in like half a dozen states. He doesn't have any more of a mandate than Trump did.
Or Bush did.
Unlike Bush, I don't think Biden will ever express anything like the word mandate.
OOPs, wrong again.
Biden, while acknowledging he hasn't even won yet, just said he had a mandate to deal with COVID and unemployment
Oh well...
I think most everyone will agree that Biden's top priority should be to get the pandemic under control and enable all businesses to reopen. So that I think is an implicit mandate (even from those who did not vote for Biden).
They always end up saying that, it seems. I mean, technically, it's just authority to rule, so it's not wrong per se. However, I think most people conceptualize a mandate as a sense of extraordinary support far outweighing any opposition. This is not quite all that.
Agreed completely, Johnson had a mandate. 60% of the popular vote and 486 in the EC.
Landslide = mandate, not 306
Joe Biden's only mandate has been to remove Trump from the White House. "Biden ain't Trump" was the theme of the Biden campaign.
Not a difficult promise to keep. Or is it?
Nice melodramatic drivel...