Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million votes. He was "constitutionally elected," by an 18th century constitutional design that includes a ban on foreign bribes to the president and that offers impeachment and removal as a remedy for bribe-seekinghttps://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1194362323944632320 …
I'm no fan of Trump, but that's intellectually dishonest. He campaigned for the electoral vote. If he'd campaigned for the popular vote, he'd have won more of it.
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But by that logic you could assume the same for Clinton
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Sure. But the point is you can't say, as Frum did, that Trump "lost."
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The 2018 House election in which he campaigned like mad is an excellent proxy for how he'd do if the metric was popular vote. He'd absolutely get rolled no matter how he reallocated resources
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@davidfrum is pointing out that Trump was elected through the system of rules (the constitution) that he’s being impeached through. -
He wasn’t elected in a purely democratic sense, and he wouldn’t be removed via plebiscite, but neither of those matter, because we’re a constitutional republic.
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The point is that there is no such thing as a national popular vote. We have state popular votes which creates electoral votes and Trump won the popular vote in every state in which he got the electoral votes.
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