Friday, November 29, 2024

Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority

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.

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"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."

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Their jets are mostly lost in the vapor trails.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-28 09:57 PM

They are drunk on power and revenge. They could care less about the proverbial wall they are headed towards.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-28 10:05 PM

They could care less about the proverbial wall they are headed towards.

That's because they know Mexico is going to pay for it.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-28 10:09 PM

There you go, injecting reality into a MAGA brain and expecting it to make a difference. Silly rabbit.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-11-29 08:07 AM

Whoa, wait, what?

... Trump -- 49.83% ...

Pres-elect Trump did not win a majority of the votes?


Can you say ~un-mandate?~

I knew you could.



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 10:10 PM

By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-29 11:14 PM

@#6 ... By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent. ...

Got a link?

The reason I ask is that most of the legal cases about fraudulent voting in the past few years have been directed towards Republicans.

So, what's yer got?



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 11:23 PM

By some estimates

Some people say you got that from your colon.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-29 11:26 PM

Unfortunately, this is meaningless.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-11-29 11:26 PM

Unfortunately, this is meaningless.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-11-29 11:26 PM | Reply | Flag: MEH

That's not entirely true. It proves he doesn't have the country behind him. It's hard to get things done. Resistance will be a dead weight for him.

Still after 4 years of campaigning and that's the best he could do? ppppfffffffttttttt

Kamala put up a HUGE competition in three months. Everyone complained about how they knew nothing about her... and she had all that transactivist dead weight that attached itself to her.

They knew everything about Trumpanzee... he still couldn't pull a majority.

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-30 02:52 AM

As if the Repubs give a flying-fudge about the legitimacy of their rule. The party that does everything in their power to disenfranchise voters, even overruling state amendments passed by voters 65% - 35%.

In November 2018, nearly 65 percent of Florida voters approved Amendment 4, a constitutional amendment that automatically restored voting rights to most Floridians with past convictions who had completed the terms of their sentence. Shortly thereafter, in June 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7066 into law, prohibiting returning citizens from voting unless they pay off certain legal financial obligations (LFOs) imposed by a court pursuant to a felony conviction.
www.brennancenter.org.

#11 | Posted by censored at 2024-11-30 07:20 AM

"By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent"

Too dumb to warrant comment.

Donald Trump will just claim all the statistics are rigged and that he does have a big majority of the popular vote and the rest of his party will believe it for the next foe years if Trump says it because it's a cult and most of us know that now, in four years all Americans will know it.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-30 10:14 AM

False

#13 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-11-30 01:37 PM

He never had it.

If Kamala had said that she would end complicity with Israel's genocide (and the weapon shipments) she would have won. Instead a lot of people stayed home.

#14 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-11-30 01:51 PM

By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent.

#6 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

By all estimates you're a f^*%ing idiot.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-30 02:31 PM

He's still going to run the country like the mafia

#16 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-30 09:25 PM

hilarious.

who could have predicted "you people" would all at the same time say the same thing ?

--other than everyone who's ever been here before.

denying it's a "mandate" is one thing.

trying to de-emphasize the popular vote count is stupid.

"Trump won a very close election"''

won the "swing states" and places that were democrat "birth rights" and turned voting groups that democrats

have taken for granted in unprecedented numbers.

312 / 226 IS NOT CLOSE....no matter what you or the other pathetic losers have to say.

#17 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-12-01 08:01 AM

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