The latest idiotic talking point from Team Trump is that Trump
actually won the popular vote -- if you just exclude New York
and California. This kind of insane desperation speaks volumes
about what's to come from a Trump presidency.
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However, there's one aspect of this supposed huge victory that
you know just sticks in Trump's craw. (You know this because he
and his army of idiot surrogates are desperately trying to
pretend it doesn't.) That would be the fact that, while he won
the electoral college, Trump got creamed in the popular vote.
With the final tally now in, Hillary Clinton beat him soundly --
by 2.8 million votes. That's the most votes any presidential
candidate has ever gotten who hasn't actually ascended to the
White House. Even his electoral college win ranks 46th of 58
contests, but it's the popular vote loss that has Trump's
mouthpieces doing laughable logical gymnastics to justify the
loss and, as Banter's Justin Rosario put it earlier today,
protect and bolster Trump's fragile ego.
Maybe you've heard about this by now. The latest Team Trump
talking point is that Trump actually won the popular vote. All
you have to do is remove New York and California and --
presto! -- Trump wins by three million votes. Yes, the
conservative Daily Mail seems to have started this ridiculous
meme and it's of course caught on like wildfire among the Trump
faithful. Just pretend two entire states and the 60 million who
live there don't exist and suddenly Little Donny can sleep at
night without throwing a fucking tantrum because he didn't get
what he wanted. By this logic, of course, we could just remove,
say, Florida and Michigan, and Clinton is officially president
because she'd beat Trump in the electoral college.
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/12/trump-new-york-california-popular-vote/