The short answer is “Yes”.
There’s a number of folks apparently (and understandably) still trying to gather some solace after the record breaking loss of the Democrat nominee.
But here we see they’re still stretching the truth:
A Nov. 24 post on Threads shared the claim, writing, “Donald Trump losing the popular vote by 2% and only won because of the electoral college means that he is a DEI president.” (DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion.)
Another user shared the claim in a now-deleted Instagram post from Nov. 24, which read, “DONALD J. TRUMP OFFICIALLY LOST THE 2024 POPULAR VOTE FOR POTUS.”
In comments, the user explained that since Trump did not receive at least 50% of all votes cast, he had lost the popular vote.
But this is a misunderstanding of how the popular vote is measured.
In order to win the popular vote, a candidate must only receive more votes than any other single candidate — that is, a plurality of votes. They need not win the majority of all votes cast.
And that’s the way it’s always been. The third forth and fifth (and so on ) parties tend to muddy the popular vote waters. An example of this would be Ross Perot.
Oh, By the way, and before you start in with claims of a tainted source, the source is MSN, hardly a bastion of right wing thought.
