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Some conservative publications have taken to arguing this week that the President-elect did much better on Election Day than his nearly 3 million-vote deficit suggestsif only certain liberal cities and states were completely discounted from the popular vote total.
By far, the most popular target for wholesale disenfranchisement in these thought experiments is California. Clinton won the states popular vote by more than 4.2 million, according to a tally by the Cook Political Report, which is an even larger margin than her nationwide popular vote lead, which was nearly 2.9 million.
The Daily Mail headlined an article which was later featured on the Drudge Report Wednesday: Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million but he BEAT Clinton by 3 million votes outside of California and New York.
Such a feat of revisionism belies the fact that California is the nations most populous state (New York is fourth) and is home to more than one in eight Americans who voted for president in 2016, per the Cook Political Report.
Other outlets took a similar tack: It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California, Investors Business Daily declared on Saturday. Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman-turned-shock jock, amplified the IBD article Sunday on Twitter and wrote I know California is a state & we have to count it, but if you remove CA, Trump won the popular vote by 1.4 million.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-without-california-trump-won-popular-vote
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)I bet there are so many of them to prove Hillary won but they will never be counted.
stopbush
(24,376 posts)Trump got zero votes.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Californian and New Yorker voted for Clinton, right?
Cicada
(4,533 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)Trump was born in NY, so he also lost his home state in the election . Someone hand trump a box of tissues .
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)The place that knows him better than anywhere else.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Certainly bigger than Dumfukistan which has constantly voted Republican over the last 36 years
emulatorloo
(43,979 posts)RandySF
(57,612 posts)Along with anyone else who wants to ridicule or diminish California.
ismnotwasm
(41,917 posts)I thought it was JPR revisionist math