Sentences with phrase «lose popular votes»

Since Fox News arrived, Republicans have lost the popular vote in every presidential election since 2004, Kristol added.

Trump has repeatedly claimed, without specific evidence, that voter fraud lost him the popular vote to his former Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

There is no evidence to support Trump's repeated assertion that he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's election because people voted illegally, independent experts and analysts have said.

Trump has been making the claim since November, arguing without any evidence that illegal voting was the reason he lost the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

At a meeting with lawmakers on Monday, Trump falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants had voted in the election.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down Tuesday on Donald Trump's false claim that he only lost the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.

In 2013, it lost the popular vote for the first time to the opposition.

The Republicans lost the popular vote for the House of Representatives by over 1.3 million votes.

Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections, and lost the popular vote for Confess, although they have the House because the districts are rigged.

In any case, Romney lost the popular vote by almost five million votes.

That he lost the popular vote does not change this.

While ballots are still being counted, Trump's on pace to become the fifth president to win the election, while losing the popular vote.

You do remember he lost the popular vote, right?

Their party lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes, and are doing increasingly poorly with minorities.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

He beat his national polls by only 1 to 2 percentage points in losing the popular vote to Hilary Clinton.»

Unless there are additional rules I don't know about, you could lose the popular vote by literally 100 % and end up as president if you could somehow convince the electors to vote for you «faithlessly».

Keeping in mind that Republican candidates for president had lost the popular vote in the last five of six contests, the committee put forth a 97 - page report four months after the election, calling it the «Growth and Opportunity Project.»

The reason a president can win despite losing the popular vote, then, is because the US is a federal democratic republic.

how is it democratic that Donald Trump is leading the executive branch while he lost the popular vote (in which case it means that he does not have the support from majority)?

@Josua Except in the legal sense, which is the only meaningful in a State of Law (think of Pres. of the USA who did lost the popular vote but were elected).

I threw it in a spreadsheet, and the winner of the thirty - one places with the fewest votes per electoral college vote loses the popular vote by about 79.6 % to 20.4 %.

Let's keep in mind that Rump won a narrow victory in the Electoral College, lost the popular vote by close to 3 million and will be a minority president.

Labour lost the popular vote in Wales for the first time since the first world war, taking just 20.3 per cent of the vote.

This was the fourth of five elections in the twentieth century where a party lost the popular vote, but won the most seats.

With 85 % percent voter turnout, the final result was underscored by the fact that Razak's coalition lost the popular vote with 47 % of the tally, yet somehow it ended up with 60 % of seats in parliament.

On the calendar for Jan. 20 is the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, a divisive figure who lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million ballots.

The events came one day after the inauguration of a U.S. president who brazenly exploited racial animus, misogyny and xenophobia, all while stashing corporatist ambitions under the rug, in a discordant election campaign that saw him lose the popular vote by a substantial margin.

They lost the popular vote 52 % to 48 %, but won due to what could only be described as a gerrymander.

Once again Trump wins even if he loses the popular vote.

President Trump won the Electoral College with narrow victories in three states, despite having lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

In a secret recording made as part of an undercover investigation and reported on by The Guardian, the company's head of data, Alex Tayler, said, «When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3m votes but won the electoral college vote that's down to the data and the research.»

And there was Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2.1 points but won the electoral college.

«When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes but won the Electoral College vote that's down to the data and the research,» he said.

Not exact matches

Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

In the 2008 election, however, the Party had lost its only seat, and saw its share of the popular vote fall from 9 percent in 2004 to 7 (in the 2004 election, the Party ran as the Alberta Alliance Party).

The rapper Eminem, whose «Lose Yourself» was recently voted as the most popular running song in a Runner's World poll, claims he ran 17 miles a day on the treadmill to beat an addiction to alcohol and painkillers, stating that his «addict's brain» led him to get carried away with running.

I think it's worth mentioning that the point of the 50 % + rule is to ensure that a party that wins the popular vote should not lose the next election due to gerrymandering.

The solution is tantamount to a ghost ballot, as the lost ballot would be awarded to the candidate receiving the largest percentage of the state's popular vote.

It also creates the unfortunate situation that a candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election because of the way electoral votes are distributed.

True, it lost overall control of Glasgow, along with North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire, and trailed the Conservatives as well as the SNP in the Scotland - wide popular vote.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

As the 2016 election results continue to come in, it looks pretty clear that Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote but lose the electoral college.

In the 1951 general election, Labour narrowly lost to Churchill's Conservatives, despite receiving the larger share of the popular vote — its highest ever vote numerically.

Despite losing the indirect but all - important state - by - state electoral college count, «I won three million more (popular) votes than the other guy,» she said.

Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner suggested that an «almost presidential museum library» be created to recognize the contributions of Chappaqua's Hillary Clinton and four other presidential candidates who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

He said January: «The Conservatives will win the popular vote, but Labour could scrape through as the largest party provided they don't suffer too many loses to the SNP.»

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

it'd be lovely to have a wider electoral coalition, but we should remember 1984 and how focusing on our core vote lost us a popular mandate to rule

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.