• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Trump: 49.8% of popular vote (77,302,580 votes)

    Harris 48.3% of popular vote (75,017,613 votes)

    He won the majority, unless you’re counting spoiled ballots that accomplished fuck all against empowering dictatorship.

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      The definition of majority is a percentage over 50%.

      49.8% is less than 50%

      I’m sorry if this is a difficult concept to grasp.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      Define words however you want, that doesn’t make it true. A majority is 50%+1. Anything less is a plurality. More people voted for someone other than Trump than those who voted for him.

      Beside the point, the original claim was a majority of Americans, and that isn’t even close to a majority anyways. Even with your funny definitions.