Remember this when Republicans start claiming Trump has a mandate, or that the voters rejected Hillary and the Democrats, or that the voters rejected the establishment and the system.
Or when Bernie supporters make the same false claims.
The Trump voters did those things.
But most voters did the opposite.
The chose Hillary, the Democrats, the establishment, and the system, and repudiated Il Duce, Buchananism, and all he stands for.
If anybody got a mandate, it was Hillary.
She is up by 1.8 million votes, with millions still being counted in California.
Hillary Clinton not only won the popular vote in Tuesday’s election. It is now clear that she won it by a margin larger than two candidates who went on to win the presidency.
David Leonhardt, a columnist for The New York Times, noted on Friday that with a 1.7-percentage-point popular vote lead over Donald Trump,Clinton will have a larger margin of victory than Richard Nixon had over Hubert Humphrey in 1968 or John F. Kennedy had over Nixon in 1960.
(Her edge is also larger than Al Gore’s popular vote victory over George W. Bush in 2000, though he too was stymied by an electoral college loss.)
In raw numbers, that amounts to an edge of roughly 1.8 million votes as of Saturday.
Votes are still being counted, however, with the outstanding ballots overwhelmingly concentrated in Democratic bastions like California, Washington state and New York.
The Times’ Nate Cohn estimated on Saturday that there were a total of 7 million votes left to be counted nationwide. As of Thursday, more than 4 million votes had yet to be counted in California alone.
That means that Clinton’s lead will almost certainly grow in the coming days, as it has since election night.
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