{"id":8916,"date":"2025-03-05T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:06:31","slug":"not-a-mandate-say-it-again-and-again-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/not-a-mandate-say-it-again-and-again-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a mandate &#8212; say it again and again #resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/04\/donald-trump-congress-address-speech\">Trump declares administration \u2018just getting started\u2019 in address to Congress | Trump administration | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump claimed a mandate for \u201cbold and profound change\u201d, though at 1.5 points his winning margin in the popular vote was historically narrow and three points less than Joe Biden\u2019s four years earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;\">\u00a0Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 points last year, whereas Biden won it by 4.5 points in 2020. Trump\u2019s electoral college vote count of 312 surpassed Biden\u2019s vote count of 306 in 2020, but Barack Obama secured 332 electoral votes in 2012.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump declares administration \u2018just getting started\u2019 in address to Congress | Trump administration | The Guardian Trump claimed a mandate for \u201cbold and profound change\u201d, though at 1.5 points his winning margin in the popular vote was historically narrow and three points less than Joe Biden\u2019s four years earlier. \u00a0Trump won the popular vote by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/not-a-mandate-say-it-again-and-again-resist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a mandate &#8212; say it again and again #resist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}