Trump Makes Dumbfounding Claim That Democrats are Fighting to ‘Get Rid of the Popular Vote’

Sean Craig

9 December 2024 at 11:59 am·1-min read

President-elect Donald Trump dances off stage at the conclusion of a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 04, 2024.

President-elect Donald Trump launched a baffling claim Monday that "Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections." In a post on his Truth Social network, he added: “They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!” In fact, the popular vote has in recent decades heavily favored Democrats and, this year, Trump became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. Democratic candidates have won the popular vote in five of the seven presidential elections in the 21st Century, losing two of those elections to Republicans who got fewer votes on a national level. Not only is there no Democratic effort to shore up the Electoral College, many prominent Democrats—including the party’s 2016 nominee for president Hillary Clinton, who won more votes than Trump but lost the Electoral College—have argued in favor of a popular vote for president. It is very likely that Trump and George W. Bush, who lost the 2000 popular vote to Al Gore, would have never been elected president were it not for the Electoral College.

President-elect Donald Trump writes that Democrats are trying to get rid of the popular vote on his Truth Social app. / Truth Social

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