No mandate: 54% voted against Trump
Not quite the landslide he claims at his victory rallies.
The reason why Republicans are so touchy about recounts and losing the popular vote is that President-elect Donald Trump has no mandate as 54% of voters cast their votes against the next president.
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted a fact that drives Trump and the GOP crazy:
54% of us voted against Donald Trump. https://t.co/4fDbNV1DVG
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 4, 2016
To put Trump’s lack of a mandate into perspective, Republicans claimed that Obama had no mandate after he won 51% of the vote in 2012. The total percentage of voters who voted against George W. Bush ranged from 51%-52%. Never in modern electoral history has a candidate been sworn into office who was so roundly rejected the electorate.
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5 responses to No mandate: 54% voted against Trump
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mea_mark December 6th, 2016 at 11:26
If there is a mandate, it is for election reform.
Lyndia December 6th, 2016 at 14:58
Right, all the more reason to get rid of the electoral college.
mea_mark December 6th, 2016 at 15:34
Maybe, maybe not. If we fix the primaries and deal with gerrymandering along with some of the other problems, the Electoral College should not be a problem. It could be we don’t need it though, if when we fix our electoral process we figure out a way to keep the bigger states from ruling over the smaller states. At the present the EC keeps the bigger states from overrunning the smaller states.
gilligan December 6th, 2016 at 21:42
#Minority President Elect!
Gary Parillo December 6th, 2016 at 23:43
To put it another way,only 61 million voters,voted Trump,or about 28%.of eligible voters.Our pop.is roughly 350 million,so 288 million did not vote Trump.Discounting those to young to vote which is roughly 21-27%,roughly total of 228 million “did not” vote Trump.Im not a math wiz,but that’s close enough to make clear that the “majority”of the country did not choose him.Canada may need to build their own wall.