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: [1]
A Nov. 24 post on Threads [2] 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 [3] diversity, equity and inclusion.)
Another user shared the claim in a now-deleted Instagram post from Nov. 24 [4], 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.