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Trump did not win by a "landslide"

Submitted by Unifex on

It just needs to be said, and remembered, and pointed out whenever and where ever it is seen.

...the former president’s margin of victory over Harris is a miniscule 1.6 percentage points, “smaller than that of every winning president since 1888 other than two: John F Kennedy in 1960 and Richard M Nixon in 1968”, as an analysis in the New York Times noted last month. In fact, in the 55 presidential elections in which the popular vote winner became president, 49 of them were won with a margin bigger than Trump’s in 2024.

Mehdi Hasan points out what the rest of us already know.