By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 17:41:29 | Updated at 2024-11-22 23:36:57
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The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 22, 2024Updated 9:13 a.m. ET | Peter Baker
Posted on 11/22/2024 9:37:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On the night he won a second term, President-elect Donald J. Trump rejoiced in the moment. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he boasted. In the two weeks since, his campaign has repeatedly heralded his “landslide,” even to market Trump merchandise like the “Official Trump Victory Glass.”
But by traditional numeric measures, Mr. Trump’s victory was neither unprecedented nor a landslide. In fact, he prevailed with one of the smallest margins of victory in the popular vote since the 19th century and generated little of the coattails of a true landslide.
The disconnect goes beyond predictable Trumpian braggadocio. The incoming president and his team are trying to cement the impression of a “resounding margin,” as one aide called it, to make Mr. Trump seem more popular than he is and strengthen his hand in forcing through his agenda in the months to come.
The collapse of Matt Gaetz’s prospective nomination for attorney general on Thursday demonstrated the challenges for Mr. Trump in forcing a Republican Congress to defer to his more provocative ideas. While Mr. Gaetz, a former Republican congressman from Florida, denied allegations of attending sex and drug parties and having sex with an underage girl, they proved too much even for Republicans eager to stay in Mr. Trump’s good graces.
With some votes still being counted, the tally used by The New York Times showed Mr. Trump winning the popular vote with 49.997 percent as of Thursday night, and he appears likely to fall below that once the final results are in, meaning he would not capture a majority. Another count used by CNN and other outlets shows him winning 49.9 percent. By either reckoning, his margin over Vice President Kamala Harris was about 1.6 percentage points, the...
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: bias; mediabias; thedurantytimes
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Meanwhile Trump and Musk are in Moscow trying to prevent WWIII.
That's why the have not been heard from for the past few days.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Vote fraud made it narrow.
2 posted on 11/22/2024 9:39:02 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A lot of people did vote for Kamala Harris and that should remain a sobering reminder to conservatives as we work to restore and rebuild the movement to have lasting impact.
To: Carry_Okie
No doubt about it, after what we just saw in the Pennsylvania Senate race.
4 posted on 11/22/2024 9:39:54 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
NYT therapy for leftists. Pretty bad when the best you can say is that he won everything, including the popular vote, but that he didn’t win it enough, or something, lol.
5 posted on 11/22/2024 9:40:13 AM PST by MikeyB806
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No,I wouldn’t call it a landslide. But it most certainly was a *comfortable* victory...unlike The Big Guy’s “victory” in 2020 (42,000 total votes in 3 states).
6 posted on 11/22/2024 9:40:16 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Calif. votes/ballots don’t really matter.....
7 posted on 11/22/2024 9:41:00 AM PST by Paladin2
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