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Rather than the electoral college being a disadvantage to Trump, it works to his advantage because it gives disproportionate power to small rural states. If election was by national popular vote he’d have little chance of success.
Trump's "straight talk" about this too...
"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy. ... A total sham and a travesty." -- Trump 2012
"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy. ... A total sham and a travesty." -- Trump 2012
Trump is a "hurray for me, *********" New Yorker. I don't think all the votes against him in New York and New Jersey was just because they were liberals. They all knew what he could do.
Ford was never elected to be vice president, nor president.
I didn't say re-elected. I referred to 'sitting presidents' who ran and lost. Ford was sitting president in 1976 after Nixon resigned. If you do take out Ford, though, the point is even stronger.
Trump is a "hurray for me, *********" New Yorker. I don't think all the votes against him in New York and New Jersey was just because they were liberals. They all knew what he could do.
We all knew what a thief, grifter and liar he has always been and looked on in astonishment as rubes voted for a lifelong con artist that would rip them off at the drop of a crappy cheap red MAGA hat.
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