Trump Beat Clinton by 3 Million Outside of California and New York
By Jack Phillips ~ December 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton in Dade City, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2016, and Donald Trump in Warren, Michigan in Warren, Michigan, on Oct. 31, 2016. (JEWEL SAMAD,JEFF
According to a new figures, without California and New York, President-elect Donald Trump would have defeated rival Hillary Clinton by around 3 million v**es. The Cook Political Report on Tuesday, in its final update, said Clinton won by more than 2.8 million v**es. Trump also took the E*******l College with 306 v**es to Clinton’s 232.
She won California by 4.2 million v**es and won New York by 1.6 million, which is a net 5.8 million advantage in those two states.
On Tuesday, Trump again tweeted about the E*******l College, saying it is “much more difficult” and more “sophisticated” to win e*******l v**es than winning the popular v**e. “Hillary focused on the wrong states!” he added.
“I would have done even better in the e******n, if that is possible if the winner was based on popular v**e—but would campaign differently,” he wrote. “I have not heard any of the pundits or commentators discussing the fact that I spent FAR LESS MONEY on the win than Hillary on the loss!” he also wrote.
Federal e******n filings show Trump spent about $600 million and Clinton spent some $1.2 billion during the campaign season. During the final weeks of the campaign, starting from Oct. 20, Trump spent $94.5 million, as compared with Clinton’s $131.8 million, according to The Associated Press. After the e******n, Clinton has $839,000 in her coffers while Trump has $7.6 million, the report said.
Following the e******n result, some have pushed for the abolition of the E*******l College. A few days after Nov. 8, Democratic Sen. Barabara Boxer, of California, introduced a bill to end the e*******l system—which is written into the U.S Constitution.
“In my lifetime, I have seen two e******ns where the winner of the general e******n did not win the popular v**e,” the lifelong Democratic senator said in a statement on her website last month, referring to Trump’s win and Al Gore’s loss to George W. Bush in 2000. Gore won by about 500,000 v**es while Bush took the E*******l College.
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The New York Times on Monday, as e*****rs certified Trump’s victory, wrote an opinion piece that said the E*******l College should be done away with.
“Today the college, which allocates e*****rs based on each state’s representation in Congress, tips the scales in favor of smaller states; a Wyoming resident’s v**e counts 3.6 times as much as a Californian’s,” the paper wrote. Wyoming, which has a population of 584,000, typically v**es Republican during p**********l e******ns. “And because almost all states use a winner-take-all system, the e******n ends up being fought in just a dozen or so ‘battleground’ states, leaving tens of millions of Americans on the sidelines.”
But Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday criticized those who are calling for the abolition of the institution.
“This is football season. A team can have more yards and lose the game. What matters is how many points you put on the board. The E*******l College is the points,” he said on “Fox & Friends.”
He added: “Trump actually carried—in the 49 states outside of California, he had a 1.2 million v**e majority. He got k**led in California because he never campaigned there.”
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pafret wrote:
From what I read this is a ten state coalition all of whom will give the e*******l college v**es to the popular v**e winner. With the states with the megacities all going Democrat, this will negate the intention of the founding fathers to prevent exactly this situation. The E*******l College was the means to negate the popular v**e which is concentrated in a tiny portion of this nation.