I said the vote was against Trump and not for Biden in another post and was told I was nuts. Which way is it?
It's both.
But a mandate comes from a broad coalition of Americans crossing party lines to coalesce behind a vision, not a partisan vote.
If he would have won the popular vote by 9 or 10 points like the polls were saying and ended up with 350 electoral votes, then that would be a mandate.
But getting the same number of electoral votes that Trump got 4 years ago, that ain't no mandate