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Huffington Post // Technology

Trump Says He Won A 'Powerful Mandate.’ It’s Unclear What For.

Friday 8th November 2024, 6:47AM

!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"8b91a199-4ef5-467c-aa0e-d8fa693cf882"}).render("672db27ce4b0933e82c97717");});Donald Trump had a lot to say during his victory speech at Mar-a-Lago early on Wednesday morning. The most important line may have been this one: “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”Trump has earned the right to claim public validation. He’s on track to be the first Republican presidential candidate in 20 years to get more support than his opponent. Exit polls suggest he won over all kinds of voters, all over the country. He is the American people’s choice for president, and that choice is not ambiguous.Of course, talking about a “mandate” may also appeal to Trump’s grandiosity, or stroke his authoritarian instincts. It’s certainly what his more ideologically motivated supporters want to hear. They put a lot of time and effort into writing documents like

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