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popular vote
[ pop-yuh-ler voht ]
noun
- the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the Electoral College. Compare electoral vote.
- the vote for a candidate, issue, etc., made by the qualified voters, as opposed to a vote made by elected representatives.
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I have some numbers here: If only people who had voted in 2022 had voted, Harris would have won the popular vote and also the Electoral College fairly easily.
But if everyone had voted, Trump would have won the popular vote by nearly five points.
The Liberals and the Conservatives have dominated the popular vote, with both parties receiving more than 40% of ballots counted across Canada so far.
Kamala Harris lost by 1.48% of the popular vote, the fifth closest election since 1900.
I mentioned in my piece that the Trump administration tried this before: They set up a whole election integrity commission in 2017, after Trump claimed that 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election in California and that鈥檚 why he lost the popular vote.
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