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highplainsdem

(48,910 posts) Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:25 PM Feb 2020

The "failed presidential candidate" Trump keeps attacking got 47.2% of popular vote. Trump got 46.1%

I'm guessing Trump is well aware of that, and it's part of his hatred of Romney.

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The "failed presidential candidate" Trump keeps attacking got 47.2% of popular vote. Trump got 46.1% (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2020 OP

He should be hospitalized right now. Trump is a very sick man, totally unhinged. katmondoo Feb 2020 #1

He may not know that leftieNanner Feb 2020 #2

another Trump election factoid onenote Feb 2020 #3

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)

1. He should be hospitalized right now. Trump is a very sick man, totally unhinged.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:28 PM

Feb 2020

leftieNanner

(15,062 posts)

2. He may not know that

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:32 PM

Feb 2020

It sounds like a detail that he would not choose to learn. He knows that Obama beat Romney, and that's all he cares about. In his feverish little, drug addled mind, he thinks HE won the plurality of the vote. All those cheating brown people were illegal voters.

GAAAAH!

onenote

(42,585 posts)

3. another Trump election factoid

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:55 PM

Feb 2020

Trump carried 30 states. But in 7 of those states, representing 107 electoral college votes -- representing over 35 percent of his 304 EC votes -- he failed to get 50 percent of the popular vote in the state.

By contrast, in two elections, where he carried 26 and 28 states, Barack Obama received at least 50 percent of the popular vote in every state he won.

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