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I agree with the rest of your point but I dont think its factual to say the majority of the country voted for trump. 77m/343m or ~20% of the country voted for t
by 420official 9mo ago
I agree with the rest of your point but I dont think its factual to say the majority of the country voted for trump. 77m/343m or ~20% of the country voted for trump, though I'm sure this is what you meant to say.
- KingOfCoders 9mo ago1. The majority of voters voted for Trump 2. People who don't vote are like fine with whoever wins like "What pizza? I'm fine with every pizza you bring" Yes, 5 year olds didn't vote for Trump.
- tdeck 9mo agoTrump won less than 50% of the popular vote.
- treetalker 9mo agoFalse. Comment demonstrates ignorance of the electoral college and disregard for fact. Even among eligible voters who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
- justinator 9mo agoYou don't need > 50% of the votes to make a majority when you're pool is more than 2, which it was. Weird thing to hang your hat on.
- treetalker 9mo agoMajority means > 50%. Perhaps you meant plurality. Regardless, US presidential elections do not depend on getting a majority or even a plurality of popular votes, but rather on a majority of electoral votes. And Trump did not get a majority of popular votes as claimed. This being HN, the fact-check seemed appropriate and I stand by it.
- justinator 9mo agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority Of the definitions, seems like the third is correct for this context: 3 : the group or political party having the greater number of votes (as in a legislature) >And Trump did not get a majority of popular votes as claimed. I would think that he did.