Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : She has also performed significantly better than recent major-party nominees such as Trump in 2020 (46.8), Trump in 2016 (48.2), Mitt Romney in 2012 (47.2), John McCain in 2008 (45.7), George W. Bush in 2000 (47.9), Bob Dole in 1996 (40.7), George H.W. Bush in 1992 (37.4), Michael Dukakis in 1988 (45.6), Walter Mondale (40.6), Carter in 1980 (41), or Gerald Ford in 1976 (48).
64% : Trump was excited by the numbers showing him with well over 50 percent of the popular vote and establishing a wide lead over his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
50% : In fact, of all the 59 presidential elections since the nation's founding, it appears that -- after all of the 2024 votes are counted -- only five popular vote winners in history will have prevailed by smaller percentage margins than Trump.
49% : Because it puts the 2024 election results in perspective -- and, in doing so, gives members of both parties an understanding of how to respond when Trump claims that an unappealing nominee or policy should be accepted out of deference to his "powerful" mandate.
43% : So, the failure to win a majority won't cost Trump the presidency.
43% : Let's put this in perspective: Trump is winning a lower percent of the popular vote this year than Biden did in 2020 (51.3), Obama in 2012 (51.1), Obama in 2008 (52.9), George W. Bush in 2004 (50.7), George H.W. Bush in 1988 (53.2), Ronald Reagan in 1984 (58.8), Reagan in 1980 (50.7), or Jimmy Carter in 1976 (50.1).
42% : As of Monday afternoon, Trump was at 49.94, while Harris was at 48.26, according to the authoritative Cook Political Report's tracking of results from official sources in states across the country.
38% : Why make note of all the presidents who ran better than Trump?
37% : Trump's still ahead of Harris in the popular vote.
33% : Unfortunately, for the president-elect, the United States takes time to count 155,000,000 million votes -- give or take a million -- and the actual result will rob Trump of his bragging points.
32% : Trump can no longer claim that powerful mandate.
31% : Trump no longer has that.
31% : And the bottom line is that the gap between Trump and Harris is narrower than the difference between major-party contenders in the vast majority of American presidential races.

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