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Our cup runneth over

People are hurting, and millions of them didn’t vote either way. They just didn’t vote. I want people to hear that. The vote totals went down. They didn’t go up. They went down. And we have to take this very seriously.

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Blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.

We need to be ready for a new world. RFK Jr. will have more influence, with his cast of characters who have a history of opposing evidence-based public health practice.

We are at the brink

The country is evenly divided when it comes to party preference. Trump did not win a landslide like FDR in 1936, Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980, or Obama in 2008. He won by a small margin in the Electoral College and popular vote.

World Jewish Congress president called Trump a 'proven ally', while the ADL's CEO said he looked forward to working with Trump and all of Tuesday night's winner. However, not everyone struck a celebratory tone.