Former President Trump expressed that a Republican victory in the popular vote is challenging due to Democratic dominance in key states as Election Day nears.
At a rally in Virginia, Trump urged strong voter turnout on Tuesday, stating his desire to win “everything,” including the popular vote. However, he acknowledged that states like California present an obstacle to securing the popular vote.
“When you have New York, Illinois and California, you have automatically, it’s like ridiculous, automatically goes to a Democrat, it’s tough to win the popular vote because they’re three big states,” he said.
Though Trump won the presidency in 2016, he failed to capture the popular vote that year against Hillary Clinton, as well as in 2020 against President Biden. Over the past six presidential elections since 2000, Democrats have won the popular vote five times, although Republicans claimed victory in the Electoral College in three of those races.
Trump suggested that current polls show him leading “everything,” adding that he anticipates winning the popular vote. He also referenced his unproven claims of voter fraud benefiting Democrats, which he argues impacted his 2020 reelection bid.
“I’d love to win the popular vote with them cheating. Let them cheat because that’s what they do. They do it very well. They’re very professional, but I think we have a really good chance to win the popular vote, and I think things are going to be very interesting,” he said.
Because the Electoral College system requires a candidate to win enough states to achieve 270 electoral votes, securing the popular vote alone doesn’t guarantee a win. Recently, Democrats have frequently won the popular vote while falling short in the Electoral College.
In 2016, Clinton won the popular vote by a 2-point margin but narrowly lost the Electoral College. In 2020, Biden won the popular vote by 4.5 points yet only managed a tight victory in the Electoral College.
Experts have suggested that Vice President Harris may not achieve the same popular vote margin as past Democrats, with shifts in the electorate potentially boosting Republican popular vote margins without necessarily impacting the Electoral College results.
Trump’s rally in Virginia was one of several stops this weekend in states that have typically leaned Democratic and are expected to support Harris comfortably.
{Matzav.com}
Well, he is 100% correct. The major cities are full of libtards and the libtards will not vote Republican. They have no brains and as it takes no brains to vote Democrat, they simply vote Democrat all the time without even thinking .
Thank Gd we have an electoral college system so that evens things out.
Trump had the ‘popular’ votes all 3 terms – easily. The country was for him since 2016. Hillary’s ‘popular’ votes were only in the rigged states. Which means, they ‘made’ her ‘popular’. She ended up winning on 11% of the country with all her ‘popularity’.
Biden, of course, was not popular at all and neither did he win any states.
And Kamala Harris dropped out of the race in 2019 because she couldn’t raise any money. How ‘popular’ is that?