The Nation: Donald Trump Has Not Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

[Dennis Donovan]

The Nation - (archived: https://archive.ph/rXpF5 ) Donald Trump Has Not Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

John Nichols
Politics / November 19, 2024

America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Donald Trump declared in the early morning hours of November 6, 2024, after all the polls had closed. Indeed, he claimed that he had won “a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this.” Trump was excited by the numbers showing him with well over 50 percent of the popular vote and establishing a wide lead over his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Unfortunately, for the president-elect, the United States takes time to count 155 million votes—give or take a million—and the actual result will rob Trump of his bragging points.

Trump can no longer claim that powerful mandate. By most reasonable measures, the beginning point for such a claim in a system with two major parties is an overwhelming majority vote in favor of your candidacy. Trump no longer has that.

Over the weekend, as California, Oregon, Washington, and other Western states moved closer to completing their counts, Trump’s percentage of the popular vote fell below 50 percent. And his margin of victory looks to be much smaller than initially anticipated. In fact, of all the 59 presidential elections since the nation’s founding, it appears that—after all of the 2024 votes are counted—only five popular vote winners in history will have prevailed by smaller percentage margins than Trump.

Trump’s popular-vote advantage has declined steadily since election night. As of Monday afternoon, Trump was at 49.94 percent, while Harris was at 48.26, according to the authoritative Cook Political Report’s tracking of results from official sources in states across the country. And we can expect that the Republican’s total will only continue to tick downward as heavily Democratic states on the West Coast finalize their vote tallies.

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[surfered]

1. Yippee! That's gonna bruise his snowflake ego.

[Omnipresent]

3. Part of our National History.

The numbers will be there, well beyond the orange anus’s last breath.

[jaxexpat]

8. Should that go at the beginning or end of the elegy for the USA? Or just put it on the tombstone?

[BonnieJW]

16. He'll just ignore that

He'll keep saying he has a mandate and that he won by a landslide.

[lastlib]

20. Oh, he'll just lie about it....

...and make shit up to suit his narcissism. If he had edged Harris out by two votes out of 155+million, he would STILL claim a massive win, crow about it like he'd won by the 150million. Assholes gotta asshole, yunno.

[Think. Again.]

2. Well, that's absolutely meaningless.

Protect yourselves, everyone.

[Mariana]

4. I don't know why some people keep going on and on about this.

It's not going to make a bit of difference.

[Think. Again.]

5. I agree...

We're facing very dark days, people can't seem to wrap their heads around that.

[TNNurse]

6. He will just lie about it and fools will believe him.

[Ray Bruns]

7. And there was much rejoicing

https://m.

[barbtries]

9. it doesn't matter.

as with gwbush, he'll still call it a mandate and rule accordingly.

[Hekate]

13. Fascinating, TimmyTwoToes. Welcome to DU...

Enjoy your stay.

[calimary]

11. Down below 50% as of Monday afternoon?

Indeed. And probably still dropping.

You’ll NEVER hear the GOP admitting that, though.

[Hekate]

12. Twaddle. The author talks like Trump is a normal person, & he is no such thing...

Quote:
“….and the actual result will rob Trump of his bragging points.
Trump can no longer claim that powerful mandate most reasonable measures, the beginning point for such a claim in a system with two major parties is an overwhelming majority vote in favor of your candidacy. Trump no longer has that.”

#1 Trump is NEVER “robbed of his bragging points.” He lives to boast, he boasts to live, and he’ll punch down hard at anyone who dares question him.
#2 See #1

[pfitz59]

14. Nearly 170 million eligible voters

did not vote for the orange pustule.

[iluvtennis]

15. Love that we Dems won this battle. Yay! Every small victory counts. n/t

[OverBurn]

17. Hard to believe he could win the popular vote at all. He is very unpopular, hated as matter of fact.

I still don't trust the results. They spent 4 year crying about being cheated, maybe they found a way to cheat themselves.

[dchill]

18. "I want all counting to stop!"

[roamer65]

21. Nixon in 1968 was less than 50 pct.

[BadGimp]

22. The "Orange Scam Artist in Chief" has only managed to succeed at Failing

3 Elections, and he lost the popular Vote in all of them.

That is quite a record.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Even Fox knows that trump did not win a majority

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