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> Trump doesn’t respect the function of the US President

Probably why people voted for him.

> shits on the vote of the citizens.

yes 4 years ago. But now… can’t really say we didn’t know what we were voting for. I didn’t vote for him, but most of my fellow Americans did, and we gotta live with that, and hope we learn.




> most of my fellow Americans did

Not true.


Trump - 77 million votes

Harris - 75 million votes

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/...


That's the official counts. How many voters in Georgia were disenfranchised? How many provisional ballots were thrown out?

Stuff like this https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/


The OP said “most Americans”, not “more Americans than voted for Harris”.


US population: 340M

- an American citizen who wasn't able to vote in multiple presidential elections due to nonsense like being unregistered without notification in a state with an early registration deadline


Look down one more line where it says Trump got less than 50% of the total.


Neitber of those are even remotly a majority of the US.


And even more votes for other candidates, hence Trump did not win a majority of the vote.


> 49.91%

"First past the post" means "first to get above 50%". He didn't win enough of the vote to be elected.


That is not what first past the post means.

First past the post is plurality wins.

Anyways, that's not how US presidential elections work. The aggregate of votes doesn't matter, only the electoral votes divvied up by state.


Trump only won by plurality.




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