I'm going to go with the Big Lie 2 here. Trump lost the popular vote just like he did with Hilary and Biden.
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I mean, the popular vote means shit in the USA electoral system. Even if he didn't achieve 50%, that is only a technicality, as he got 49.9%. So, he won also the popular vote by ~2,500,000 votes, which is more impressive than 1.6 points. So I think it was a landslide in its own terms, considering the triumphs in the Senate and the House. And fuck Trump, couldn't fucking say this enough. Americans elected Trump. He is a consequence of their decisions. Own it.
I mean, no, a Landslide is historically defined as 400 EVs and that hasn't happened in a while, not even Obama quite got there.
But it is the biggest victory a Republican has had since 1988. I don't get all the hemming and hawing about mandates and plurality of PV vs majority of PV and stuff. This was a bigger win for the Republicans then 2000, 2004, and 2016. 2004 is the only one that's even debatable. Harris lost harder than any democrat since Micheal Dukakis. And while a lot of that is people who only show up for Trump and thus it's possible 2028 is a democrat wave, there's also a lot of people specifically turned off by Trump who might not mind the far younger Vance(who had the biggest glowup this year of the 4 people on the tickets, he went from bottom in popularity to comparable to Walz, meanwhile Trump and Walz stagnated and Harris surged and then un-surged)
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
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.
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