We won the pop vote by 2,500,000 and lost E C vote by less than 100,000.

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38. Your argument

This election is a cautionary tale. Candidates who have close associations with dishonest or corrupt individuals personally or in business will not run in the first place if they truly care about the well being of their constituents. That goes for school board, city council, etc. and all the way up to president.

Your argument is belied by the fact that a man who has a nearly fifty year history of making bigoted statements and engaging in discriminatory practices, has been sued over three thousand times, has declared bankruptcy six times, has just settled a fraud suit for twenty five million dollars, has been cited for stealing from his own charity, and is a serial adulterer and sexual predator has just been elected president.

To suggest he is a more virtuous candidate than the candidate he "defeated" strains credulity.

He was able to convince just enough racists to win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by a lot:

It’s worth repeating what Trump said throughout the election. His campaign indulged in hateful rhetoric against Hispanics and condemned Muslim Americans with the collective guilt of anyone who would commit terror. It treated black America as a lawless dystopia and spoke of black Americans as dupes and fools. And to his supporters, Trump promised mass deportations, a ban on Muslim entry to the United States, and strict “law and order” as applied to those black communities. Trump is now president-elect. Judging from his choices for the transition—figures like immigration hardliner Kris Kobach and white nationalist Stephen Bannon—it’s clear he plans to deliver on those promises.


http://tinyurl.com/j4qtxjq

You can ignore the fact all you want but a large part of his vote was a vote against our brothers and sisters of color, our Muslim brothers and sisters, and our glbtq brother and sisters who didn't know their place and those that dared to stand beside them.