Trump s Senate impeachment trial is over, again. But the 2020 election? Not yet. Susan Page, USA TODAY
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The 2020 election?
November’s contest wasn’t close – Joe Biden won it by more than 7 million votes – but its aftermath and the candidate who lost continue to cast a shadow over American politics in general, and the Republican Party in particular.
Although a majority of the Senate voted to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection, one that led to last month’s deadly assault on the Capitol, the former president on Saturday avoided the two-thirds majority required for conviction by holding the support of a solid majority of Republican senators. Free to run for the White House again, he immediately cast the trial as just another partisan outrage and a rallying cry for his supporters.
The 2020 election?
Not so much.
November’s contest wasn’t close – Joe Biden won it by more than 7 million votes – but its aftermath and the candidate who lost continue to cast a shadow over American politics in general, and the Republican Party in particular.
Although a majority of the Senate voted to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection, one that led to last month’s deadly assault on the Capitol, the former president on Saturday avoided the two-thirds majority required for conviction by holding the support of a solid majority of Republican senators. Free to run for the White House again, he immediately cast the trial as just another partisan outrage and a rallying cry for his supporters.
Domestically, he added opportunities for employment for Hispanics, Blacks, Asians and women.
Trump removed roadblocks to getting a coronavirus vaccine to us in record time and moved the country closer to energy independence.
Let’s pray that President Joe Biden will do as well.
Theresa Johnson, Sarasota
Senate conviction about presidential power
Former President Donald Trump incited a mob to breach the Capitol and attack the first branch of government while it was doing its constitutional duty to “count electoral votes.”
The intent was to overturn the results of an election decided “by the people,” who preferred the other candidate by a 7 million-vote margin.
How can a new president restore a sense of normalcy at a time nothing seems normal?
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. takes the oath of office Wednesday amid crises that rival the worst in American history, earning comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt s inauguration in 1933 during the Great Depression and as storm clouds gathered over Europe. Or Abraham Lincoln s inauguration in 1861 as seven Southern states seceded and the Civil War loomed.
But challenges can also be opportunities. Those earlier times of catastrophe forged pivotal moments and presidencies now heralded among the nation s most consequential. He s going to enter office at perhaps a more precarious time for our nation than we ve seen in the past 150 years, said David Barker, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. That star-spangled banner still waves, but over, perhaps, a land of the cynical and a home of the scared.
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