Letters: Both parties should try to work together, but not at the expense of what's best for the US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump received 76.8 million votes, far fewer than the 81.3 million votes Joe Biden won four years ago.
56% : If they run for office or hold a class for politicians, they have my vote.-- Steven Ludkowski, Elk Grove VillageDespite Gov. JB Pritzker's hollow postelection taunt to President-elect Donald Trump that he needs to "come through me" if Trump comes for Illinoisans, Pritzker's performance has been far from that of a "happy warrior," as Pritzker described himself.
49% : Some Democrats won in states and districts that also voted for Trump.
42% : Trump received millions of votes, but so did Democrats up and down the ballot.
37% : Pritzker's determination to antagonize Trump will discourage support in the National Institutes of Health for Illinois' extensive biotechnology research, which circulates through university labs and ultimately ends up in companies such as AbbVie.
34% : Biden's victory in 2020 was not a mandate nor a landslide, and neither is Trump's this year.-- Bill Morris, Lake ForestI urge the Tribune opinion team to hand-deliver to Gov. JB Pritzker a copy of fellow Democrat Dave Nayak's op-ed.
30% : What about Trump declaring bankruptcy multiple times but not forgiving unfairly structured student loans?
29% : Bottom line: The Tribune Editorial Board ("Illinois and Trump are no match made in heaven.
28% : Instead, Trump and many of his supporters rejected the outcome in 2020 and tried to overturn the results.
25% : Frank asserts that Democrats could lose in the 2026 midterms if they oppose Trump, but that also isn't necessarily true.
24% : Why should Trump encourage these and other economic-development programs in a state led by a governor who delights in threatening to thwart him as he attempts to enact his electoral mandate?-- Dan Miller, ChicagoLetter writers Clare Connor of Chicago ("Pritzker should back off," Nov. 14) and Joseph A. Murzanski of Orland Park ("Wrong fight to wage," Nov. 14) should run for office.
23% : In the 2020 election, Joe Biden defeated Trump in the popular vote by 4.4 percentage points.
22% : While ballots are still being counted in some areas, Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the popular vote by only 1.7 percentage points.
21% : I'm confused by the letters from Donald Trump voters who claim they voted not for Trump but against the "woke"/progressive agenda -- without telling us what specifically they voted against.
21% : During the presidential campaign, in a transparent attempt to promote himself for the national Democratic ticket instead of focusing on issues that voters really care about, Pritzker engaged in unseemly schoolyard name-calling, referring to Trump as homophobic, racist and misogynistic.
20% : There is no argument that Trump won the election, but an electoral vote count of 312 to Harris' 226 does not match the landslides achieved by Ronald Regan, who in 1984 won by nearly 16 million votes and 525 electoral votes to his opponent's 13, and Franklin Roosevelt, who in 1936 won 523 electoral votes to his opponents' eight.
18% : Trump won 50% of the vote, as opposed to Kamala Harris' 48.4%, hardly a landslide or a mandate.
15% : Climate technology also is a Pritzker favorite that is at risk while the governor pokes Trump in the eye.
14% : I don't recall Republicans saying that Biden "overwhelmingly" defeated Trump or that Biden received a "mandate" and they should all fall in line behind him.

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