Peter Welch: “The difference between them was one and a half percent of…”

“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%. President Trump won, but just slightly over 2 million votes more than Kamala Harris. The difference between them was one and a half percent of the popular vote. And although it was one of the smallest margins of victory since the 19th century, President Trump in his inaugural address and others in the inner circle of Trump repeatedly called the victory a landslide, a blowout, a mandate.” (00:50–00:56)

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