Trump's "Mandate" Evaporates, He Got 49.87% Of Popular Vote
By: Ursula Faw (PolitiZoom)
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By Ursula Faw - November 21, 2024921
Yes, I hear it too. The screams off in the distance "stollen mandate!" Expect the tom tom drums of MAGAn outrage to be pounding out this theme in the days to come. The simple truth of the matter is that Donald Trump jumped the gun on Election Night, as always. And as expected he would do. This time, he got it right that he won, but he did not get it right that there was any "mandate" and there certainly was no landslide. Late votes are still being counted and when the accounts are reconciled Trump may not be sitting as pretty as he glowingly reported he was on November 5.
The electorate in this country is divided. That's not a new observation. The misinformation in this country has poisoned peoples' minds. The legacy media is terrified to stand up to Trump so they cater to him and always have. You saw Joe and Mika make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago and no I don't know if they brought him pink and red Starbursts but it would not surprise me one iota. If Joe Scarborough put his testicles in a jar and handed it to Trump, it wouldn't surprise me. Trump might as well wear a ring and everybody start kissing it. I would appreciate that level of honesty and transparency, in fact. He's a mob boss, let's treat him like one. But he's not a mob boss with any kind of a mandate and zero "landslide." That's pure fiction.
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.
Given that perilous hold on power, Trump might want to reconsider his current strategy of ruling Washington like a devastated and occupied enemy city with a Cabinet largely composed of men and women who appear to hate the departments and agencies they are supposed to oversee, plus a governing plan that may rely on testing the tolerance of the federal judiciary for totally unparalleled assertions of supreme presidential powers. And Trump's MAGA base should also cool its jets a bit. There's certainly a degree of triumphalism in the air that really isn't justified by the election returns.
They're dancing in the streets. MAGA believes they're ruling supreme. No. Trump won by an unimpressive amount and he's still the unpopular contender he has always been. Different people have been trying to reason with him, to no avail. Karl Rove did an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that said, "no president has infinite sway, no matter how remarkable his electoral victory. Second-term chief executives tend to have even less." And there was no remarkable electoral victory. 250,000 votes in just three states would have put this election in Kamala Harris's column and not in Trump's.
But you can't tell the TV mogul any of this. He's going to keep nominating catastrophic candidates and the hearings will make for interesting cable TV. That much we can depend on. Karl Rove also said,
Inadequate vetting, impatience, disregard for qualifications and a thirst for revenge have created chaos and controversy for Mr. Trump before he's even in office. The price for all this will be missed opportunities to shore up popular support for the incoming president. But at least it'll make great TV.
Rove thinks Trump could have played his hand differently, "shored up popular support," but I don't. Trump is a one-trick pony. And that trick is outrage. Gone are the days when Paul Ryan would mistily proclaim that Trump "becoming presidential" was an achievement that would manifest at any moment. It never happened. It never will. It never can.
So America will have four years of a complete shitshow and circus. Or maybe less. Donald doesn't look well. Which Big Mac will be the decisive one and Lady Karma teams up with cholesterol for a decisive bout?
The man's a wreck and America is torn into warring camps. This is the Civil War redux. The Civil War killed 2% of the population of that era and Trump's already killed 1.1 million Americans by flubbing COVID. We are at each other's throats. The comparisons will keep coming.
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I saw the Trump lackey Byron Donald on tv a couple days ago. He said Trump had an electoral college landslide, and said it was the biggest since Reagan in 1984.
Here are the elections since 1984 where the winner had MORE electoral votes than Trump does this year.
1988
1992
1996
2008
2012
Trump, and spoke persons spreading Trump lies , aren't a surprise, but what is, is how this fckn no man
date clown can think that an adult 30somethin or other Fla Rep Beavis im-poster on da Trump roster a farian when closer a look, at where there was found evic=dence, though not of the level required to bring charges, how is it, that the NO 'Man" date would Trump, turn down, as this is one blatantly fckd up person, and the gutless R party of PUSSIES has just gone too far enough to push, cause pull has predictaments where a probable sex traffickin non African admitted drug using and abusing, women asz well, is somehow not needed to be looked into, cause Hell, WTF is WRONG with the gutless Republican Party of hippocritical regressive possessive of none existent morals and ethics, cause it might be a death kiss wrapped in Aluminem to Foil the reception of radio waves instructing cult members to follow Don boy out into traffic to get run over by people. People like mothers and fathers whom don't think it's the best look for the Attorney General, the ,highest, enforcer of ALL the Laws in this land, that wishes to stand with two middle fingers in your face, after visiting an under aged teenagers place, snortin some shit, then hiitin some shit, cause swallor spit, that's someones future mother, your little sisters brother, a future grand mother fckr, or another you might wish to smoother, with protection,
cause how the believers of Qananon conspiracies can state how upset they were at children eating canabalector types like Hillary , or innocent old man hair sniffin band of accusations were all the sensation, but when a potential ACTUAL REAL violater of children , and worse yet, young girls, has a swarm of unanswered questions, serious questions, Hell, FCKN SERIOUS QUESTIONS that NEED to be answered, even if he's no longer a candidate for A G. I would like to see how many Republicans that were willing to put this accused partyin pedofile in the top perch of pokin around Trumps'list of enemies, and their teenage daughters, cause holy Jesse Dirty Watters, has the GOP totally lost it, due to Trump Bjullshit, cause to not care about knowing what this J bag may have done, sorta removes the fun out of leavin Matt at home with our daughters, babysitting job available
Guess what percentage of the vote Clinton got?
370
That is the number of electoral votes Clinton won in 1992. 58 more than Trump now.
Clinton only received 43% of the popular vote; but Democrats still screamed mandate!
Because there were three candidates and Ross Perot got like 19% of the vote. But for him, Clinton would likely have received about 53% of the popular vote .
So? The popular vote doesn't mean shit.
Steady drip of late ballots. Where have we heard that before?
Democrat special coming part deux.
Democrats still lost. Bigly. Get over it.
There have been 60 U.S. presidential elections. Trump's percentage of the popular vote this time ranks 42nd.
the only "man date" Trump has, is named Elon
Cue the baseless fraud accusations from Trump….
None of it matters, the election was obviously rigged.
So, instead of being a Republic, if America were a Democracy, Harris would have won. Too bad. Maybe it's time to get smart.
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When Biden won in 2020, I heard that he whipped Trump almost every day.
The testimony to Trump's win and mandate is that the one who once did all the bragging is now gone.