Because the final votes proceed to get tallied throughout the nation, one factor is obvious: Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5 is nowhere close to the “mandate” Republicans are claiming.
On Monday, CNN knowledge reporter Harry Enten broke down Trump’s extremely weak standard vote victory.
“Look, if you look historically speaking, Donald Trump is now under 50% in the national popular vote, barely under 50%,” Enten told CNN anchor John Berman. “Compare his popular vote victory to those, historically speaking, over the last 200 years. His popular vote victory ranks 44th out of 51. That ain’t exactly strong,” he defined.
Certainly, Trump has the shakiest standard vote win since George W. Bush was reelected in 2004, and the newest standard vote margin is the leanest since Al Gore’s win over Bush in 2000 (Bush received by a single Electoral School vote, whereas Gore received the favored vote by 543,895).
People additionally didn’t present a lot confidence in Republicans downballot.
“In fact, I went all the way back to the history books, and this is the most Senate races that the winner’s party lost in states the president won since 2004,” Enten stated. Democratic Senate candidates have formally received 4 states that Trump additionally received, and the Pennsylvania Senate race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick is not but referred to as.
As for the Home?
“You’d have to go all the way back before there were 50 states in the union to find a smaller majority for the incoming House majority” primarily based on the present election rely projections, giving Republicans a paper-thin 221 to 214 majority.
Enten notes that a few of these GOP Home members are set to go away their seats to affix the Trump administration, making the already skinny Republican majority even smaller.
“We’re speaking a few very huge win for Donald Trump. However the depth, it is not notably deep,” Enten stated. “It’s actually quite shallow, historically speaking.”
