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[–] Soup@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

He won with the popular vote the second time so congrats on just being objectively, verifiably, flat-out wrong, I guess. Plus it should not have even been close, even the first time when he didn’t win the popular vote. He has always given STRONG “weird fringe party guy” energy yet that dumbass country gleefully elected him or didn’t even show up because they didn’t find he was dangerous enough to do anything about. The opposition was a conservative who’s biggest selling point, after she tanked her own campaign by ignoring her base, was that she wasn’t Trump. Absolutely absurd.

And I’m only slightly less pissed about my fellow Canadians only barely electing a centrist over a Trump dick-sucker. Again, a party that doesn’t even have real policies should not get any votes and yet is for some reason the main contender.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Total votes for DJT: 77,302,580

Total votes for all the other people (Harris, Stein, Kennedy, Oliver and other) combined: 77,935,722

So yes, DJT won the popular vote, but the majority, even if just a teeny tiny one, did not vote for him. DJT just got 49.8% of the total votes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election#Results

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I see what you’re getting at, my point otherwise still stands. Fucking embarrassing.