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Why do you think he aligns with "the majority of US citizens", when Trump didn't get 50% of the votes?
by Timon3 2y ago
Why do you think he aligns with "the majority of US citizens", when Trump didn't get 50% of the votes?
- andsoitis 2y ago> Why do you think he aligns with "the majority of US citizens", when Trump didn't get 50% of the votes? Even though he only garnered 49.8% of the popular vote (77,302,580 votes), that is decidedly more than Harris’ 48.3% (75,017,613 votes)[1] The remaining 1.85% of the popular vote went to various other presidential candidates (i.e. not Democrat or Republican)[2] So technically you are correct that the majority of voters didn’t vote for him, but he did win a majority of the popular vote. [1] https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president [2] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
- Timon3 2y agoNo, that's still not a majority of the popular vote, just a plurality.