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Donald Trump's "unprecedented" popular vote margin is now shrinking!!

posted 3 days ago by HarlemEagle42 (17720)
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Lol, that's some mandate alright! Maybe if fifteen million Americans got off their lazy ass to vote, Kamala Harris could had beat him after all. Well, considering how fast time went under Biden, at least 2028 will be here in no time.

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His popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent on the evening of November 5 (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.62 percent today. That’s about a half-percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. To make some other comparisons: Barack Obama won the popular vote by 3.9 percent in 2012 and 7.2 percent in 2016, and George W. Bush won the popular vote by 2.4 percent in the very close 2004 election.

Unlike Obama and Bush, moreover, Trump did not win a majority of the national popular vote. Though it looked like he was over 50 percent on Election Night, the steady drip of late ballots has eroded his percentage to (currently) 49.87 percent, with further slippage very likely before all the votes are in.

Trump’s win in the Electoral College was more impressive, though his 316 electoral votes were less than Obama’s in either of his elections and just above Biden’s in 2020. In Pennsylvania, the “tipping point” state that clinched a second term for Trump, his margin over Harris was 1.8 percent, not exactly a landslide.

So by any measure, the claim of an “unprecedented” mandate simply isn’t true. Trump won a very close election and will govern a country where a near majority of people have voted against him three times. Yes, his party won control of Congress as well. But in the House, the margin of Republican control (with three contests still undecided) is so small that Trump’s appointment of three representatives to Cabinet positions could make any controversial votes extremely difficult for House Speaker Mike Johnson until special elections are held, and very difficult even then.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/election-results-show-trump-has-lost-popular-vote-majority.html

[–] KingBob (2106) 3 days ago

The reason Donald Trumps victory appeared to be “shrinking” was because states like California after election night had only counted like 60 or so percent of the ballots. Now they have counted about 97 percent of the ballots and Trump is still up by over 2 million.

Also guess what, genius? The popular vote doesn’t matter, never has, it’s the electoral college that matters and Trump absolutely spanked Kamala in it, the dumb cunt didn’t even get a single swing or “blue wall state”. Far left fart sniffers like Allan Lichtman got completely and totally humiliated on national television, not to mention that stupid bitch Ann Selzer who actually thought Kamala was going to have a prayer in Iowa.

We won, you lost, elections have consequences. Calm down, take a deep breath, get a grip and admit to yourself that you don’t matter anymore and Trump will be your president whether you like it or not. All I’m hearing from you is loser talk and it sounds like you need to go spend some time in your little safe space.

[–] Bossdog677 (1553) 3 days ago

You could retitle this "Counties cheating elections finally finishing up"

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17720) 2 days ago

Even Fox News anchors are telling him to give it a rest.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4997824-fox-news-hume-trump-mandate/

[–] KingBob (2106) 2 days ago

Doesn’t matter, he’s still 2 million votes ahead and POPULAR VOTE DOESN’T MATTER! You know democrats are in trouble when they are arguing over a vote that doesn’t make any difference.