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

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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