{"id":31048,"date":"2018-07-17T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31048"},"modified":"2018-07-17T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:39:16","slug":"potus-wasnt-elected-easily-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31048","title":{"rendered":"POTUS wasn&#8217;t elected &#8216;easily&#8217; &#8230; honest!"},"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>As long as Donald John Trump continues to re-litigate the 2016 presidential election, allow me a brief moment to set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p>The president said in that frightening, mind-blowing press conference this week with Vladimir Putin that he was elected &#8220;easily&#8221; over Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. How easy was it?.<\/p>\n<p>Trump finished with 304 electoral votes; Clinton ended up with 227. To be elected, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went over the top on the strength of about 80,000 votes in three critical states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. A 40,000-vote switch in those states and Clinton wins the election.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton finished with nearly 3 million more popular votes than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Let me state once again for the record: Donald John Trump was elected fairly and squarely, <em>but not &#8220;easily.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stop telling that ridiculous lie, Mr. President.<\/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>As long as Donald John Trump continues to re-litigate the 2016 presidential election, allow me a brief moment to set the record straight. The president said in that frightening, mind-blowing press conference this week with Vladimir Putin that he was elected &#8220;easily&#8221; over Hillary Rodham Clinton. Let&#8217;s see. How easy was it?. Trump finished with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS wasn&#8217;t elected &#8216;easily&#8217; &#8230; honest!<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1424,1551,2139,6680],"class_list":["post-31048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-popular-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31048","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=31048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31049,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31048\/revisions\/31049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}