Categories: Elections

Reminder of the day: The American people voted for Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was on Meet the Press today, and when asked about whether a new chief of staff can put an end to chaos in the White House, he predictably responded:

I say you have to let Trump be Trump. That is what has made him successful over the last thirty years. That is what the American people voted for. And anybody who thinks they’re going to change Donald Trump doesn’t know Donald Trump.

Lewandowski is wrong. The American people didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The Electoral College did. That is why Trump is President. The American people collectively voted for Hillary Clinton to be their Commander-in-Chief.

In the election, Clinton received 65,853,516 votes, or 48.5%. Trump received 62,984,825 votes, or 46.4%. That is a difference of 2,868,691 votes.

Also, Donald Trump’s career as a businessman has been littered with repeated failures and bankruptcies, so it can hardly be called successful. Trump has certainly conned people into buying into that mythology, however.

Andrew Villeneuve

Andrew Villeneuve is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, as well as the founder of NPI's sibling, the Northwest Progressive Foundation. He has worked to advance progressive causes for over two decades as a strategist, speaker, author, and organizer. Andrew is also a cybersecurity expert, a veteran facilitator, a delegate to the Washington State Democratic Central Committee, and a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

Recent Posts

Donald Trump hoped to sidestep abortion in this year’s campaign – Arizona’s near-total ban shows why he can’t

"While court proceedings are likely to delay implementation of the ruling, the political impact was…

2 weeks ago

Caitlin Clark stops by Weekend Update, Kate McKinnon returns to SNL for cold open with Ryan Gosling

Watch highlights from the seventeenth episode of SNL’s forty-ninth season, hosted by Ryan Gosling, with…

2 weeks ago

These billionaires abandoned Trump after January 6th – taxes are bringing them back in line

The Los Angeles Times' David Lauter reports: "Many of the nation’s richest people said after…

3 weeks ago

Tesla’s sales drop, a sign that its grip on the electric vehicles market is slipping

"Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year,…

4 weeks ago

SNL recruits Scarlett Johansson to lampoon Katie Britt’s creepy State of the Union response

Watch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-ninth season, hosted by Josh Brolin, with…

2 months ago

‘He nailed it’: Republican strategist reacts to Biden’s 2024 SOTU speech

Republican strategist Sarah Longwell reacts to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, saying…

2 months ago