WAPO: Election results don't support Trump's claims of a landslide and mandate

[emulatorloo]

Lying liar continues to lie.


Election results don’t support Trump’s claims of a landslide and mandate
The president-elect’s popular-vote win was narrow and his electoral victory was modest by historical standards.

January 20, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EST

By Justine McDaniel

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have exaggerated his victory since the November election, claiming a “landslide” win and a sweeping mandate despite having prevailed relatively narrowly — assertions Trump continued to press during a pre-inauguration rally in Washington.

“We achieved the most epic political victory our country has ever seen,” Trump told supporters Sunday at Capital One Arena.

Such claims are not supported by the election results, which show a starkly divided electorate and a historically slim win by Trump. His margin of victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the national popular vote — 1.5 percentage points — is the smallest of any president who secured a popular-vote win since Richard M. Nixon in 1968.

And though Trump won the popular vote, he did not secure a majority, coming just shy with 49.9 percent of the vote, according to certified state results compiled by the Associated Press.

Much more details and analysis at link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/20/trump-election-results-popular-vote/

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/GhohV

[live love laugh]

1. Which is why the thing today is inside the Capitol.

He’d be embarrassed by the turnout.

[Ontheboundry]

2. I consider bill Clinton my favorite president

And he never got 50% either time iirc

I'm not gonna split hairs on this one cuz I didn't think Trump would get more votes than Kamala, but he did.

[emulatorloo]

3. Yet Clinton never lied and claimed he had a HUGE mandate to do whatever the fuck he wanted to

like Dishonest Don and his propagandists are doing now.

[Ontheboundry]

6. That's not what I said tho, is it ?

I was simply referring to the 50% remark and my adoration for Clinton (bill).

If you wanna discuss something else, we can do that but that 50% thing don't bother me as much as other things about him

[emulatorloo]

7. We're on the same page. Summary - Trump is a big liar, Clinton is not a liar.

There’s no disagreement between us. Not sure why you think there is? Anyway not going to argue with you over something we agree on.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. trump cannot deal with facts or reality

trump is claiming to have won a historic landslide victory that gives him a mandate. In the real world, trump did not win a landslide victory and has no mandate

Link to tweet

https://newrepublic.com/post/188744/trump-pissed-reports-didnt-win-landslide-election-results

Donald Trump is upset with the media for accurately reporting that his election night victory wasn’t exactly a “landslide.”

Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Friday took aim at Politico and The New York Times for reporting on the fact that President-elect Trump didn’t win the popular vote by some resounding majority.

“New Fake News Narrative Alert!” Leavitt posted on X. “Here are the ridiculous headlines from @politico and @nytimes this morning. The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump’s massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again.”

Link to tweet

It’s no surprise that Trump and his team are fuming: Since November 5, Trump’s margin of victory has narrowed considerably. As of the vote count Friday morning, Trump only won against Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.6 points, and failed to secure more than 50 percent of the popular vote. Hillary Clinton managed to beat Trump by a larger margin in 2016 than Trump did over Harris in 2024.

Trump and his supporters have been pushing the landslide narrative ever since he defeated Harris. “We had a great election in the U.S.… Amazing what happened, we had tremendous success. The most successful in over 100 years they say,” he told Fox News last week. Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung claimed that “President Trump won in dominating and historic fashion after the Democrats and the fake news media peddled outright lies and disinformation throughout the campaign.” And Republicans throughout Congress have claimed the same.

trump cannot deal with reality or facts

[malaise]

5. Truth is not part of his make up

Eff him

[UTUSN]

8. Knr for, thanks wapo, we knew.

[HereForTheParty]

9. Tomorrow's headline - "The sun rose in the east"

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