{"id":19210,"date":"2017-01-15T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19210"},"modified":"2017-01-15T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:27:34","slug":"once-again-trump-didnt-win-in-a-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19210","title":{"rendered":"Once again: Trump didn&#8217;t win in a &#8216;landslide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reince-priebus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19211\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reince-priebus-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reince-priebus-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reince-priebus-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/reince-priebus.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My head is exploding as I write these words.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, has just said &#8212; twice, in fact! &#8212; that Donald J. Trump was elected <em>&#8220;in a landslide&#8221;<\/em> over Hillary Rodham Clinton on Nov. 8, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I am about to scream.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was elected with 304 electoral votes; Clinton garnered 227 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton collected 2.8 million more popular votes than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read my lips: <em>That is not a landslide victory for the president-elect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Priebus, appearing on ABC News&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; program, suffers from a form of selective amnesia. Yes, Trump won 30 of 50 states, as Priebus said; yes, again, he won &#8220;more counties&#8221; than any presidential winner since President Reagan in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>However, we cannot cherry-pick certain barometers and use them to deliver a message that conflicts with reality.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t question that Trump was elected. He won the states that he needed to win. He won more than enough Electoral College votes to be elected.<\/p>\n<p>But if we&#8217;re going to pick and choose which criteria we want to cite, let&#8217;s try this: A switch of 175,000 votes in three swing states &#8212; Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania &#8212; and today we&#8217;d be getting ready for the inauguration of <em>President-elect Clinton<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Landslide? Hell no!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My head is exploding as I write these words. The incoming White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, has just said &#8212; twice, in fact! &#8212; that Donald J. Trump was elected &#8220;in a landslide&#8221; over Hillary Rodham Clinton on Nov. 8, 2016. I am about to scream. Trump was elected with 304 electoral votes; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once again: Trump didn&#8217;t win in a &#8216;landslide&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1424,2139,3878],"class_list":["post-19210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-reince-priebus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19212,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions\/19212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}