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This seems to be the left's rallying cry. I wonder if they realize how frivolous it is.
Neither Trump nor Hillary got the majority of the national vote (45% v. 48%). Bill Clinton's share of the national vote in 1992 was even smaller, only 43%, and he won 370 electoral votes. More of the country voted against Bill Clinton than voted against Donald Trump.
Jesus Christ, how many times we have to explain this to you people? He does not have a mandate. More people came out and voted for someone else. This is it a bout Hillary Clinton. It's anti-trump.
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This seems to be the left's rallying cry. I wonder if they realize how frivolous it is.
Neither Trump nor Hillary got the majority of the national vote (45% v. 48%). Bill Clinton's share of the national vote in 1992 was even smaller, only 43%, and he won 370 electoral votes. More of the country voted against Bill Clinton than voted against Donald Trump.
Hillary got a plurality (highest number but below majority). Trump doesn't have a mandate
The American people, for example, are said to have given President Barack Obama an electoral mandate because they elected him to office. The people who elected President Obama to office voted for him because they supported his policies and approved of the decisions he said he would make as president. However, there is no formal, precise way to give President Obama, or any president or political leader, a mandate, so voters sometimes disagree on whether a leader has actually received such a nod from the public.
In the 2012 presidential election, President Obama won with 332 electoral votes but, at the time at which he was declared the victor, he had won only 50.3 percent of the popular vote. Some political commentators questioned whether he had actually won an electoral mandate after winning the popular vote by such a narrow margin. By stating that he did not, opponents implied that he had not won enough votes to earn the authority to act on behalf of the American people. Rhetoric aside, it's a common belief that all presidents, not just President Obama, must have popular support from the American people before attempting to realize big policy changes.
Although electoral mandates are sometimes a matter of dispute, and the term can be used for rhetorical purposes, their occurrence, and the belief that anyone with such a mandate should act on behalf of all voters, is generally linked to winning a democratic race, regardless of the margin by which the contest was decided.
In the end, Trump is the President and "his" party controls the House, Senate, and a significant majority of the governorships in the US.
"Mandate" or no, he is our representative and will be able to make big policy changes.
'Donald Trump didnt get the most votes' is more fitting.
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