Popular Vote Archives

News Jun. 4, 2021, 6:58 PM

Trump keeps exaggerating the number of people who cast ballots for him in the 2020 election by nearly 800,000 votes

Trump has repeatedly claimed 75 million people cast ballots for him in the November general election. In reality, just over 74.2 million did.

News Aug. 28, 2019, 7:06 AM

Trump campaign attacks ‘Crazy’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call to abolish the Electoral College — but Trump has demanded the same thing

President Donald Trump‘s reelection campaign blasted out a petition on Tuesday to protect the Electoral College, the voting system that Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have increasingly attacked. “Crazy AOC wants to ABOLISH the Electoral College. Let’s remind her this is OUR country, not the Coastal Elites,” read a text […]

News Mar. 29, 2019, 2:02 AM

54% of Americans agree with Democrats’ idea to radically reshape how we elect presidents

The majority of Americans – 54% – want the president to be elected by the popular vote, rather than the Electoral College, according to a new INSIDER poll. Just 30% of Americans – and 15% of registered Democrats who intend to vote in the 2020 primary – think the Electoral […]

News Mar. 1, 2019, 6:21 AM

Former Maine governor Paul LePage says a proposed law would dilute ‘white people’ votes

Paul LePage said a proposed state bill would dilute the votes of “white people” and make it “the minorities that would elect.” The former Maine governor has a history of racist remarks, once calling people of colour “the enemy” in fighting drug addiction. The proposed bill would bring Maine into […]

News Sep. 14, 2017, 1:55 PM

Trump keeps exaggerating the number of people who cast ballots for him in the 2020 election by nearly 800,000 votes

Trump campaign attacks ‘Crazy’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call to abolish the Electoral College — but Trump has demanded the same thing

54% of Americans agree with Democrats’ idea to radically reshape how we elect presidents

Former Maine governor Paul LePage says a proposed law would dilute ‘white people’ votes

Hillary Clinton says the Electoral College ‘needs to be eliminated’

Nearly half of Republicans believe Trump won the popular vote in November

Trump repeats debunked claim that voter fraud caused him to lose popular vote to Hillary Clinton

The last time a losing candidate had more popular votes than Clinton was in 1876 — here’s the bizarre story

A key expert says Trump’s claim that ‘millions’ of illegal voters won Clinton the popular vote is ‘not at all’ plausible

Trump makes baseless claim that ‘millions’ voted illegally, costing him the popular vote

Google is displaying a grossly inaccurate top news search result for the final popular vote

Google is displaying a grossly inaccurate top news search result for the final popular vote

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