Show threadbsmall2Jun 23, 2025

> ... increasingly significant numbers of Americans are visibly ever more deeply disturbed by the man who did indeed get only 49.7% of the popular vote in 2024 and, according to CBS News, won the presidency thanks to a “mere 0.15% of voters nationwide” who proved the difference between victory and defeat.
https://tomdispatch.com/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/

#TrumpMandate #USAPresidentialMandate #USAPoliticalCapital ... #NoKings #NoKingsProtests

This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

How strange. I've been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, that

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bsmall2Jun 4, 2025
> Let’s start with Trump’s electoral victory. His popular vote margin was one of the tiniest in American history. He won 49.9 percent of the vote compared with Kamala Harris’ 48.3 percent. Trump’s 1.6 percent edge is the third smallest since 1900, not counting 2016, when he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a 2.1 percent margin.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-does-not-have-mandate/
#PeterDreier #USAElections #PresidentialElection #TrumpMandate #uspol
Tim ZeeNov 29, 2024

There are still a few votes to be counted in the Pacific states - so this isn't final. But Trump has fallen below 50% of the popular vote.
Trump - 49.83%
Harris - 48.28%
G.W. Bush (2004) remains the only Republican to get a popular majority since 1988.
Sorry Donald, no "mandate"! LOL

#DonaldTrump #TrumpMandate #PopularVote #Election2024 #USPolitics

https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college

Allan ChowMar 19, 2023
#TrumpMandate in full force as he claims prosecutors will arrest him Tuesday despite no formal communication between prosecution and his counsel. He's forcing people to respond and allows him to claim "they aren't doing anything because they have nothing because there is nothing" and then furthers his mandate: "You didn't stop me from doing it. Therefore it is my right to to do it."