How big is Donald Trump's mandate?

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77% : In other swing states in the Sun Belt - namely Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina - the margins of victory for Trump were much more comfortable.
61% : Biden won 81.3 million votes on his way to the White House in 2020 - a year of historic voter turnout when Trump was again on the ticket.
60% : With 76.9 million votes and counting, Trump won what is known as the popular vote, according to the latest tally by the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
59% : Trump is ahead by just over 230,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the latest numbers from CBS.
45% : The Trump language suggested overwhelming victories, Jackson said, when in fact it was a few hundred-thousand votes in key areas that propelled Trump back to the White House.
43% : For this reason, his claim to have a historic mandate "may be overwrought", suggested Chris Jackson of polling firm Ipsos, who said the language of Trump and his supporters was a tactic being used to "justify the sweeping actions they're planning to take once they have control of the government".
42% : But Trump cannot say that he won the outright majority of the presidential votes that were cast in the election overall.To do so, he would need to have won more than 50%, as all victors have done for the last 20 years - other than Trump in 2016.
30% : This was also the case in 2016, when Trump beat Hillary Clinton to the presidency despite losing the popular vote - having notched only 46% of the overall ballots cast.

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