I take some comfort in knowing that Biden got millions more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
November 11, 2024 – by Heather Cox Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n All this jockeying comes amid the fact that while Trump is claiming a mandate from his election, in fact the vote was anything but a landslide. While votes are still being counted, Trump seems to have won by fewer than two percentage points in a cycle where incumbents across the globe lost. This appears to be the smallest popular vote margin for a winning candidate since Richard Nixon won in 1968. While voters elected Trump, they also backed Democratic policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What the numbers actually say about the 2024 election – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n It is likely that, when all of the votes are counted, Trump will have received about half of the votes cast, beating Vice President Kamala Harris by about a percentage point. As a function of the two-party vote, Trump\u2019s popular vote victory \u2014 his first \u2014 will probably be the smallest since Al Gore received more votes than George W. Bush in 2000. …<\/p>\n What we can say, though, is that this was not an electoral landslide, but a narrowly contested race in which Trump is likely to have benefited as much from who didn\u2019t turn out to vote for his candidacy than who did turn out to vote for him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I take some comfort in knowing that Biden got millions more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024.\u00a0 November 11, 2024 – by Heather Cox Richardson All this jockeying comes amid the fact that while Trump is claiming a mandate from his election, in fact the vote was anything but a landslide. While votes … Continue reading NOT a mandate — a narrow win.<\/span> \n
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