Contrary to Trump’s team of propaganda spinsters, squeaking into the White House with a minor margin and under half the vote in a race of only two significant candidates has historically been described as a… “just under the wire” win—but to listen to Trump and his romping and stomping crew describe things—the marginal win was one for the history books.
Uh—no it wasn’t.
While Trump won the electoral college, he did not garner the same amount of general public support that President Joe Biden got four years ago.
Biden won the vote by more than four and a half points and seeped into traditionally Republican territories with Democratic victories and captured the swing states while Dems held the House and retook the Senate by a narrow margin.
We have simply “dumbed down” a win these days and are susceptible to ridiculous claims and outright lies from the MAGA squad.
Interesting how suddenly all the election fraud claims from Trump and his henchmen and women, all the voting machine inaccuracies, the election official’s massive cheating and corruption conspiracies and suspicions have gone silent from camp Trump.
This election miraculously got rid of all the “ills” of a Trump claims of widespread fraud and literally overnight the checks and balances worked perfectly.
But the MAGA/Trump hypocrisy has never been subtle—just as it has never resembled the truth.
Trump’s win was simply nothing special comparatively and as those who have reviewed historical presidential wins throughout our country’s election cycles point out, the Trump win was no more than “meh.”
No landslide.
Reportedly, Trump’s popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent the day after the election (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.62 percent by Nov. 21.
That’s a half-percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. Other comparisons: Barack Obama won the popular vote by 3.9 percent in 2012 and 7.2 percent in 2008, and George W. Bush won the popular vote by 2.4 percent in the very close 2004 election.
The steady drip of late ballots has eroded Trump’s percentage with further slippage very likely before all the votes are in.
Democrats need to step it up, no question, but the most notable thing that people are missing is this— Joe Biden’s win bested Trump four years ago because Trump won with less of the general public voting for him than Biden did.
And Democrats weren’t claiming a Biden landslide.
Therein lies the difference between truth, decency and integrity.
The MAGA spinsters will continue to turn their perception into a reality that doesn’t exist.
But America is on to, and frankly bored with, the same ole Trump playbook…repeat it enough, pitch it as fact, no matter how big the lie.
What is legitimately worth repeating and happens to be the truth is this…unlike Obama and Bush, Trump did not win a majority of the national popular vote.
America must begin repeating the truth (because truth is always worth repeating) Trump did not win a majority of the national popular vote.
Statistically, one out of two Arizonans did not vote for Donald Trump.
Anti-Trump Arizonans can feel just fine about wandering out in public because they’re still among a majority of voters who went with decency, common sense and belief in the rule of law.
