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Trump’s win was real but not a landslide. Here’s where it ranks
CNN ^ | November 9, 2024 | Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf (D-CNN)

Posted on 11/09/2024 6:00:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

What Trump cannot claim is a landslide victory, although that’s how he will describe it.

As of Saturday, Trump is winning the popular vote with a little more than 74 million votes, although millions of votes have yet to be counted in California, Washington and Utah, among others. The final 2024 popular vote tally likely won’t be known until December.

In terms of the Electoral College, Trump is on track to win 312 electoral votes if his lead in Arizona holds. It’s a solid win, but in the lower half of US presidential elections.

Trump will never be on a presidential ballot again, because the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms. But voters will get an opportunity to weigh in on how he and Republicans use their power in two years, during the 2026 midterm elections.

The past three presidents, including Trump in his first term, all lost control of the House after their first two years in office. If Trump does end up with a friendly Republican majority this year, he’ll have to work hard to keep voters on his side two years from now.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; cnnfakenews; cnnsedition; election2024; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; journalism; media; press; zacharywolf
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1 posted on 11/09/2024 6:00:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

😂


2 posted on 11/09/2024 6:01:08 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FUCNN


3 posted on 11/09/2024 6:01:43 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Copium is one helluva drug LMAO!


4 posted on 11/09/2024 6:02:58 PM PST by Skwor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It is not pining for the fjords.It is a dead parrot. It is deceased, it is no more it is singing to the celestial choir. This is a dead f—king parrot!”


5 posted on 11/09/2024 6:03:27 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, I keep reading verbal trivia. And, in any case, what’s a CNN?


6 posted on 11/09/2024 6:04:16 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

313 EV and 4 million popular vote? okkkkkkay, CNN.


7 posted on 11/09/2024 6:04:23 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And I have no doubt that if all the numbers were reversed and it was a Harris (excuse me while I barf) victory, they’d say the same thing. /s


8 posted on 11/09/2024 6:04:36 PM PST by Dad was my hero
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To: snarkytart

312*


9 posted on 11/09/2024 6:04:53 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Considering that Trump was running with an extremely bias media like CNN and an incredibly corrupt Presidential administration and justice dept that abused their power for political advantage, Trump won by a HUGE landslide!!


10 posted on 11/09/2024 6:04:53 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wait a minute I thought there weren’t supposed to be any more elections.


11 posted on 11/09/2024 6:05:26 PM PST by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatever. The DEMs can obtain 50% plus one vote, and they get to veer hard left. Idiots.


12 posted on 11/09/2024 6:05:41 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They need to keep pumping their lack luster audience full of sht.


13 posted on 11/09/2024 6:06:23 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatever helps you sleep at night😂


14 posted on 11/09/2024 6:07:00 PM PST by blitz128
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Landslide, not a landslide.

That’s a game of semantics. But was indeed a very decisive victory - winning literally every so-called battleground state - and this attempt at downplaying such a result and what it means nonsense. No Democrat candidate has done this poorly and a Republican candidate done this well since 1988.

Thus far, Kamala Harris has not flipped a single, solitary county from the last election in her favor. Even Walter Mondale and George McGovern did that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkCNX7m9t4


15 posted on 11/09/2024 6:07:44 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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Maybe if it was one on one it wouldn’t be a landslide but it was Trump against the entire system. National security apparatus, Intel, media, entertainment. Billions in free media for comrade. Trump’s win was a huge landslide in context. It didnt just fall out of a coconut tree. It’s the context.


16 posted on 11/09/2024 6:07:57 PM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

A decisive win for the ages with all the BS he had to deal with. ABC, CBS and NBC were democrat affiliates.


17 posted on 11/09/2024 6:08:52 PM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Imagine the result with even a marginally more fair & honest media...


18 posted on 11/09/2024 6:09:03 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hilarious


19 posted on 11/09/2024 6:09:45 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is a landslide in today’s America. The country has drastically changed in the past several decades, so 1984 landslides may not be possible anymore. Given how seemingly everything veered to the GOP, it really is stunning.


20 posted on 11/09/2024 6:10:36 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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