Comment by burnerthrow008
10 months ago
Huh, you're right[1]. Trump only got 49.80% of the popular vote.
Of course, Kennedy (who is in Trump's cabinet, and seems broadly aligned with the MAGA agenda) got another 0.49%... and Oliver (the MAGA-adjacent Libertarian candidate) got another 0.42%. Hardly the ringing endorsement of "American's didn't really pick the guy" that Canadians want to hear.
[1] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
If you discount the blatant voter suppression and other forms of voter disenfranchisement. Greg Palast has an interesting article [1] on the level of disenfranchisement happening. According to the numbers calculated by him and other organizations the are _millions_ of US citizens that get their voter thrown out.
[1] https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/