Summary
Donald Trump and his team are attacking media outlets like Politico and The New York Times for reporting that his 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris was narrow, not a “landslide.”
Trump won by 1.6 points and failed to secure a majority of the popular vote, a smaller margin than Hillary Clinton’s over him in 2016.
Despite these facts, Trump and his allies continue to tout his win as “historic” and “dominant,” aiming to bolster his political mandate amid criticisms that his victory was less decisive than claimed.
Wait, what? Trump didn’t win the popular vote?
According to the first google search I did, Trump won by 2.5M votes. What’s the logic behind the statement that he “failed to secure a majority of the popular vote”? Oh, are they’re counting 3rd party votes? Who the fuck cares about that? That seems a lame nit-pick TBH.
Nit-pick? That’s what you are doing with the article
it doesn’t say he didn’t win the popular vote. it says he didn’t secure majority. majority doesn’t mean more than others; it means more than half.
it’s not a nitpick; it’s about him claiming mandate.
Serious question: Does it have any relevance whether or not someone secures majority of the public vote? Other than debunking Trump’s landslide rethoric, I mean.
It is mostly relevant because of the long list of recent presidents who did. It also is clearly not a “mandate” and means at least half the US voters disagree with him. So other poloticians shouldn’t just do what he says. That is mostly relevant inside the republican party, giving those that disagree more room to do so.
if you exclude where it matters, it doesn’t matter; that’s correct.
Well without qualifiers like “the majority of votes for the two major parties”, the majority is literally all the votes.
Don’t feel bad, education from red states is infamously bad. Might want to apply to some English courses at your local community college.
It means less than 50% of votes were cast for him. In simpler terms, more people voted for someone else than him.