Trump says it's 'tough' for Republicans to win the popular vote
Source: The Hill
11/02/24 7:58 PM ET
Former President Trump argued that Republicans winning the popular vote is tough because of Democratic strength in certain strongholds ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.
Trump said at a rally in Virginia that votes need to turn out on Tuesday because he wants to win everything, including the popular vote. But he said states like California make winning the popular vote tough.
When you have New York, Illinois and California, you have automatically, its like ridiculous, automatically goes to a Democrat, its tough to win the popular vote because theyre three big states, he said.
While Trump won the presidency in 2016, he was unsuccessful in winning the popular vote that year against Hillary Clinton or in 2020 against President Biden. Democrats have won the popular vote in the past five of six presidential elections going back to 2000, though Republicans have won in the Electoral College three of those times.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4967885-trump-republicans-popular-vote/
rurallib
(63,254 posts)and your candidates have the appeal of skunks
Pfft. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent doesnt have any policies, unless you count trying to stay out of jail and doing what he can to grift off of the presidency. Anything else has been spoon fed to him by SS Obergrupenführer Stephen Miller (Q-Nazi Fuck) and Moscow Mitch McConnell (Q-For Power and Putin!).
rurallib
(63,254 posts)I was just riffing off your comment, not (deliberately) attacking it. I probably should have put a 😉 at the end to make it clear.
rurallib
(63,254 posts)to describe their shit-show
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Conjuay
(2,153 posts)Joe Cool
(1,019 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,911 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,411 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,911 posts)JT45242
(2,959 posts)That's how you win the popular vote.
The klan and neonazi ideas have not really been popular vote winners for a long time.
To quote the Blues Brothers..."I hate Illinois Nazis."
bucolic_frolic
(47,313 posts)not very complicated. Even a stable genius might be expected to understand it.
Midnight Writer
(23,062 posts)You know your campaign team are taking you for your money, don't you, Donald? They know you can't win and they are charging you millions of dollars for their fraud. Right off the bat you should refuse to pay them. Use that money to pay more lawyers. It's your only hope.
durablend
(8,008 posts)Very likely he'll sue the American people as well.
Midnight Writer
(23,062 posts)moose65
(3,323 posts)Dems have won the popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 presidential elections. Republicans have only won it one time in the past 32 years. Youd think they would get a clue .
underpants
(186,988 posts)William Seger
(11,072 posts)He's saying that it's tough to win the popular vote because those big states give their electoral votes to Democrats? I'm beginning to suspect that The DonOld is not too bright.
Mc Mike
(9,173 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2024, 09:30 AM - Edit history (1)
he chose the 'harder' path to victory, and won by getting more electoral college votes.
Any stupid lie he feels like belching out of his pie-hole is good enough, as far as he's concerned.
"It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4- states instead of the 15 states that I visited. I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)! he added."
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/politics/donald-trump-voter-fraud-popular-vote/index.html
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,936 posts)That was the same logic he used in 2020 to claim he'd won, even before the votes had been counted.
His ego can't handle being a loser, so he lies to change the facts to match his fantasy. Poor, little pathetic man/boy.
Mc Mike
(9,173 posts)smb
(3,587 posts)underpants
(186,988 posts)🙄
Karma13612
(4,693 posts)If the nominee cant win the popular vote, they have NO business being the elected office holder.
So sick of lopsided government.
William Seger
(11,072 posts)Hotler
(12,328 posts)Novara
(6,115 posts)And you refuse to listen to them and make improvements when they tell you what they don't like about you?
It's called consequences, moron.
Raven123
(6,112 posts)What kind of math is that?
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Icanthinkformyself
(303 posts)the Republicans haven't won the presidential election since Reagan, who, with a major dose of treason with Iran mixed in, 'won'. Of course, corporate media plays a major role in dressing up the Republicans and making them seem reasonable and not batshit crazy like they really are. I have former friends who tripped over a Q and fell into the rabbit hole. They became angry and hostile posting white nationalist crap on their FB pages. Being Catholics, they we three quarters there, apparently. And, the Convicted Felon allowed them to be them to be their racist, anti-anybody but them, types that they hid very well for years. Kinda glad, in a way. Better we should know that our 'former friends' are fascists and to avoid them.
JHB
(37,447 posts)...without some form of skullduggery afoot was Eisenhower.
Rocknation
(44,884 posts)Who Is MORE UNpopular Than Popular
Rocknation
Zambero
(9,775 posts)Unpopular policies = unpopular candidates = less votes overall.
BootinUp
(49,169 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,911 posts)Martin68
(24,638 posts)vote for Democrats.
Montauk6
(8,738 posts)FakeNoose
(35,898 posts)... was all the help he got from Russia and Faux Noise?
Since 2020 Chump has lost so many supporters that he has literally no chance of winning now. At least half of his own Party refuses to vote for him and he's not picking up many independents this year. All his "stupid pet tricks" have amounted to nothing.
Elon Musk can donate all the money in the world and it won't matter.
BumRushDaShow
(143,436 posts)oldmanlynn
(470 posts)Grins
(7,920 posts)First hand.
thesquanderer
(12,379 posts)Nonsense talk as usual.
tulipsandroses
(6,233 posts)His words. Not mine.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,582 posts)TBF
(34,550 posts)gets a vote no matter which state they are in.
He's damned lucky the EV system exists - he wouldn't have been president without it.
ToxMarz
(2,252 posts)and why we have the electoral college, to rig the elections in minority favor who couldn't win any other way.
AnnaLee
(1,165 posts)"because of Democratic strength in certain strongholds ahead of Election Day on Tuesday" has nothing to do with actual vote counts.
MissouriDem47
(49 posts)When Texas along with Florida turns blue, which will make it impossible for Republicans to win the White House, they will then decide that the Electoral College needs to go. It's going to happen, it's a matter of when not if.
4catsmom
(263 posts)they've inflicted enough damage and misery on the U.S. it's a legacy of slavery and we have abolished slavery.
republianmushroom
(17,943 posts)As hey are about to find out.
Initech
(102,261 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(115,966 posts)Tweedy
(1,198 posts)about just about every old thing. That does make running a majority of us difficult.
OverBurn
(1,103 posts)MeNotThatKindOfOrc
(72 posts)they suck! of course it's tough.
underpants
(186,988 posts)W did because we were in the middle of two wars and people want to follow the leader even if that leader lied you into one of the wars.
Clouds Passing
(2,536 posts)Bush sr probably had his meddling dirty hands deeply in all of that!
AZ8theist
(6,542 posts)What are the odds??
IbogaProject
(3,710 posts)Careful he is becoming slightly aware.
patphil
(7,051 posts)If you have to resort gerrymandering and voter suppression to win, then perhaps you aren't doing the right things.
But then, these guys aren't the sharpest tools in the box.
Or, maybe it's that they just don't give a shit, as long as they win.
Yeah, that's it.
So, lets put them on a losing streak.
Emile
(30,323 posts)I reply what we need is to do away with is the electoral college.
JoseBalow
(5,490 posts)He doesn't even know what "popular vote" means
J_William_Ryan
(2,216 posts)Agreed.
Tired of the tyranny of Republican minority rule.
ailsagirl
(23,843 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2024, 11:59 PM - Edit history (3)
The last smiley has always reminded me of cheato-- red hair, stupid look on face, etc.
sakabatou
(43,195 posts)Turbineguy
(38,440 posts)Shermann
(8,698 posts)Maybe it is time to court some other groups?
(If you are one of those poorly educated Trumpers, no need to answer that. It's what's called a rhetorical question.)
D23MIURG23
(3,092 posts)Winning the popular vote means more people like you than the alternative. That's hard when you tailor your message to the ultra-rich, and ignorant people who hate minorities.
Sneederbunk
(15,255 posts)4lbs
(7,395 posts)AND RUN THINGS!
It's that plain and simple.
Even a 5-year old can understand that.
But hey, maybe saying you have the brain and intelligence of a 5-year-old might be giving you too much credit.