The neocon journal... Horseshit
The national poll last November determined that an historic Trump victory and popular vote win gave Trump a MANDATE to enact his vision for America.
You're right, and hopefully, he will improve the average Joe American's life, making life better for everyone, not just the wealthy.
Cool NARRATIVE, brah.
Seems demo is having hurt feelings at being losers.
Trump has never been shy about what he intends to do. Those who voted for him have known what his plans are the entire time.
It appears that we're sure as hell gonna find out. The GQP has convinced itself it has a clear mandate (in a 50/50 country?), so here we go.
The WSJ is so full of inside washingtion business as usual crap that no poll they conduct is valid
Army? How about South American gangs...people on the terror watch list...thousands of Chinese spies...murderers...rapists...and convicted criminals? Biden's open border policy has left America citizens vulnerable to all of the above. The bill that was killed would have simply brought them in quicker. You on the left OWN the border crisis, IM2 and it's now up to us to try and fix what you've screwed up!
Why would ANY President "hire" someone who opposes his agenda? The American people voted for Trump to fix what you on the left broke, Bulldog. They didn't do so because they wanted diversity, equity and inclusion. They did so because they were sick of it!
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You keep telling yourself that, Berg! When you win the Electoral College by a huge margin...win the popular vote by more voters than a Republican has in decades...win all of the battleground States...win the Senate...win the House...and you've done all of that while having to spend time in court fighting opposition "lawfare" and getting 90% negative coverage from the Main Stream Media...then you've kicked the ever loving tar out of the Democrats!I'm afraid it's too late to nip the idea of a mandate in the bud. Once it crossed Baby Donald's lying lips it immediately became Repub orthodoxy. But perhaps it's time to take a dispassionate look at the pure numbers.
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud
Remember the “big lie”? In 2020, Donald Trump lost the presidential election so Republicans just brazenly lied and insisted he won. In 2024, we have a new post-election lie from the Republican party. Trump didn’t just win, they say, but he won big. He won a landslide. He won an historic mandate for his “Maga” agenda.
And it was Trump himself, of course, on election night, who was the first to push this grandiose and self-serving falsehood, calling his win “a political victory that our country has never seen before” and claiming “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate”. Republican politicians, masters of message discipline, quickly followed suit. The representative Elise Stefanik called his win a “historic landslide” while the senator John Barrasso called Trump’s a “huge landslide”. “On November 5 voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it,” wrote the “Doge” co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the Wall Street Journal on 20 November.
None of this is true. Yes, Trump won the popular vote and the electoral college. Yes, Republicans won the Senate and the House. But, contrary to both Republican talking points and breathless headlines and hot takes from leading media outlets (“resounding”, “rout”, “runaway win”), there was really nothing at all historic or huge about the margin of victory.
By the way, did you know that Trump won the crucial blue wall states - Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency!
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
Exaggerating the size of a president’s victory is not new. After George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, for instance, he bragged about spending his new “political capital.” But this time, the scale of the hyperbole is classically Trumpian. As much as Republicans want to throw around words such as “landslide” and “mandate,” 2024 was one of the closest elections in American history. Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote by less than 1.5%; only one election in the last half-century (in 2000) was closer. And the razor-thin margins by which Republicans control both the House and the Senate testify to how closely the electorate is divided.
Still, most new presidents typically enjoy a honeymoon period: Fresh from their election victory, the public invests them with hopes for positive change and gives them the benefit of the doubt. Joe Biden, for instance, had 57% approval in the first Gallup poll of his presidency; Barack Obama came in at 67% approval. Even Bush, who like Trump lost the popular vote in his first victory, started at 57%. In fact, Trump was the only president in the Gallup poll’s history — going all the way back to Harry Truman — who entered office with an approval rating under 50%. He was also the only one to never crack 50% approval for a single day of an entire term.
On the verge of his second term, even after his first popular vote victory in three tries, Trump’s approval is weak. A new Marist/NPR poll puts it at just 44%; 49% say they disapprove of him. The Economist/YouGov poll gives him a similar 45/51 split, while a USA Today/Suffolk University survey has his favorability/unfavorability at 47% each.
Republicans insist that Trump is hugely popular. His polls say otherwise.
New surveys suggest he’ll face the same widespread public opposition in his second term that he faced in his first.
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More Trump is assuring success bypassing those that would see his policies failed Dog
Most importantly: Voters wanted Biden, Harris, and democrats out.
