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Peter Welch: “Donald Trump did not, contrary to what he and the vice…”

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Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate.

Published February 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:10

Mr. President. Donald Trump, as we all know, won the last election in November, and He's now the 47th president of the United States. But Donald Trump did not, contrary to what he and the vice president want people to believe, win by anything close to a landslide. As this chart shows, out of a total of 155,238,302 votes, Mr. Trump won 77,302,000, or 49.8%. Kamala Harris won 75 million, or 48.3%. (00:10–00:22)

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Asserts that Donald Trump's election victory was not a landslide.

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“Out of a total of 155,238,302 votes, Mr. Trump won 77,302,000, or 49.8%.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 00:23-00:38
“Kamala Harris won 75 million, or 48.3%.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 00:38-00:44
“The difference between them was one and a half percent of the popular vote.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 00:50-00:56
“The America first policies so far have cut funding for programs to protect water that all Americans need, clean air that we all breathe.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 02:55-03:07
“We are cutting funding for medical research for cancer cures for kids who have cancer.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 03:11-03:19
“We are cutting funding for food assistance to the food malnourished kids and parents.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 03:11-03:29
“Offsets in order to pay for the Trump tax cuts that are heavily weighted to folks who are billionaires like Mr. Musk.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 03:52-04:03
“Elon Musk... has contributed $280 million to the Trump campaign.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 04:20-04:47
“Without any elected authority, without any advice and consent of the Senate on a position that is very powerful, the so called Doge…”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 04:48-05:06
“This last election, just like in 2020, the people who oversaw this election worked hard to ensure that it was free and fair.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 05:32-05:42
“We didn't falsely claim that it was stolen.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 05:51-05:56
“Falsely denying the outcome of an election and then using violence to overturn the result of a free and fair election absolutely subverts…”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 06:29-06:40
“Affordable broadband, affordable health care, affordable housing and rent, some economic security, those are things every single one of us…”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 07:36-07:47
“Tax cuts that explode the deficit and go to folks who are not now paying their fair share.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 08:01-08:08
“President Trump and his allies pretend that he has this massive mandate to literally disrupt and throw out the traditions and norms in…”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 08:09-08:27
“There was no mandate, no massive mandate. There was a victory, but with victory.”
Welch Floor Remarks on Trump’s Misguided Mandate. | Uploaded February 11, 2025 | 08:52-08:59