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motherjonesmag Joe Biden's win in Arizona was a long time coming.
Beyond the strength of Latinx activismwhich as we detailed earlier, is to thank for Biden's winthe former vice president's win in the state was characterized by a major fracture within the state Republican Party.
Cindy McCain, the widow of long-time Republican Sen. John McCain, endorsed Biden in September. And she didnt just endorse Bidenshe worked with the campaign and was featured in an ad. But as Politico noted last month: The Republican Party of Arizona is no longer the one John McCain presided over. Its apparatus is solidly behind Trump, as evidenced by the rise of far-right Republican Kelli Ward from a fringe member of the party to head of the state GOP. But no ones arguing Cindy McCain could sway Trump diehardsits all about independents, of which there are many.
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, both candidates and their running mates made stops in Arizona. The Trump campaign had rallies at airports with no social distancing and very few masks in sight. Bidens team held small events in Latinx neighborhoods and met with Native tribal leaders and small business owners.
Since 1948, Democratic presidential candidates had won Arizona only once (Bill Clinton in 1996). In 2016, Trump won Arizona by 91,000 votes, a 3.6 percent margin. Meanwhile, exit poll data from the 2020 American Election Eve Poll showed that 71 percent of Latinx voters surveyed in Arizona voted for Biden.
Fernanda Echavarri has been reporting from the ground in Arizona this election seasonand breaks down Biden's win.
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Thank you CIndy McCain for your support to Biden.
Yoyoyo77
(267 posts)Was it Shakespeare who said that revenge is a dish best served cold?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Quoted by Khan in Wrath of Khan.
-Laelth
nsd
(2,406 posts)"The popular expression "revenge is a dish best served cold" suggests that revenge is more satisfying if enacted when unexpected or long feared, inverting traditional civilized[clarification needed] revulsion toward "cold-blooded" violence.[20]
The idea's origin is obscure. The French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (17541838) has been credited with the saying, "La vengeance est un met que l'on doit manger froid" ["Revenge is a dish that must be eaten cold"], albeit without supporting detail.[21] It has been in the English language at least since the 1846 translation of the 1845 French novel Mathilde by Joseph Marie Eugène Sue: "la vengeance se mange très bien froide",[22] there italicized as if quoting a proverbial saying, and translated "revenge is very good eaten cold".[23] It has been wrongly credited[24] to the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782).
Its path to modern popularity may begin with the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which had revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold. The familiar wording appears in the film Death Rides a Horse (1967), in the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969), as if from an "old Klingon proverb" in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). The title sequence of the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) referred to this last movie by again citing it as a Klingon proverb. After that, it appeared in the 2004 version of Man on Fire.
The phrase has also been credited to the Pashtuns of Afghanistan.[25]
Another proverb states, "If you want revenge, then dig two graves".[26] Another version (Chinese: 子不复仇非子也 proposes that a son who does not take revenge for his parents is not a son.[citation needed] Other interpretations include the idea that when pursuing revenge to kill another person, you might as well destroy yourself as well."
Laelth
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