Although Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won a plurality of the national popular vote-48.2 percent-with a nearly 3-million vote margin, Donald Trump carried 30 states and won the Electoral College vote by a 304-to-227 margin. President Obama hasn’t endorsed in the Democratic primary race.The unprecedented and largely unanticipated election of Republican candidate Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2016 set off intense debates about how his victory was achieved and which factors mattered most in determining the outcome. “I think it’s a tremendous embarrassment to Joe Biden that Obama has not.” I don’t know who’s running for anything else.” “Now what happens in 2024? I don’t know if Mike is going to run. That would be the only reason,” Trump said. “I mean, you know, I’m not even thinking of it. Trump said he responded that way because it was a “surprise question.” Todd pointed out that Trump had paused when asked if he planned to endorse Pence as his successor. He also gave a “100 percent” answer to keeping Vice President Mike Pence on his ticket. “100 percent sure,” Trump answered, when asked if he’d accept the results. The president assured Todd that there wouldn’t be a third term. “I joke and I say, ‘Watch, I will drive Chuck Todd crazy.’” He also sent out a tweet Friday with an edited Time Magazine graphic showing him being president “4EVA.” He did so the day the Mueller Report came out. Todd pointed out how the president has joked about serving a third term. And if you look at the Mueller report, there was no collusion. So impeachment’s a very unfair thing because nothing I did was wrong. But you know, I’m not sure that I like having it,” Trump said. Trump also said he thought the House Democrats opening an impeachment inquiry – which they so far have held off on – would boost his re-election prospects. And that’s the beauty of the Electoral College.” I went to Maine four times because I wanted that one. “Let me tell you something, the Electoral College is tougher for a Republican to win than the popular vote. She was not sleepy,” Trump said comparing Biden and Clinton. Trump said he’d rather run against former Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently leading the large Democratic field in the polls. On Tuesday, Trump kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign in Orlando, Fla., and brought up Clinton several times. “You only talked about her in your announcement speech,” Todd pointed out. When asked if he would like to run against Clinton again the president said no. She was ruthless and vicious,” Trump said. He said he beat Clinton 306 to 223 in the Electoral College.Ĭlinton actually got 232 electoral college votes.īut the president also called the former secretary of state, senator and first lady a “great candidate.” “But I didn’t campaign for the popular vote.” “I think I do better with the popular vote,” Trump added. The lawsuit did not expose widespread voter fraud as the president insisted. The president was likely talking about Judicial Watch’s settlement with Los Angeles County that aims to remove inactive voters from the voter rolls. “A million votes of what?” the NBC Newsman said. They admitted to a million votes,” the president said. “Take a look at their settlement where California admitted to a million votes. Trump then name-dropped the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. “I look at California,” he added, a state where Clinton bested him by 4.3 million votes. There were a lot of votes cast that I don’t believe,” Trump told Todd. “Well, I think it was a – I mean, I’ll say something that, again, is controversial. The president then repeated a claim he first made in November 2016 - when he floated “millions” voted illegally. That bothered you, didn’t it?” Todd said. “You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote. Todd brought up how Trump has often bristled over losing the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Probably not,” he told NBC’s Chuck Todd in a sit-down that aired on Sunday’s “ Meet the Press.” “It would be much better if I said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be much easier for me to say, ‘Oh, yes.’ No, I’m probably not too prepared to lose. WASHINGTON – President Trump said he was “probably not” prepared to lose the 2020 presidential election. Trump kicks off Fourth of July by reposting ‘F- Biden’ meme Trump-tied SPAC reaches agreement with SEC staff over merger CDC boss' utterly laughable exit warning on politicized 'science'īiden's regulations costing Americans $10K per household: watchdog
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