Trump Says He Would Have Won Popular Vote If He Tried

Trump Says He Would Have Won Popular Vote If He Tried
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a political rally held at the Pueblo Convention Center in Pueblo, Colo., on Oct. 3, 2016. (Theo Stroomer/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
11/15/2016
Updated:
11/15/2016

President-elect Donald Trump returned to Twitter, saying that he would have won the popular vote if he tried to.

“If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y., Florida, and California and won even bigger and more easily,” he wrote.

What Trump appears to suggest is that if the U.S. election system was based solely on the popular vote, which Hillary Clinton won by nearly 1 million votes, Trump would have used a different strategy to gain the popular vote by going to the three most populous states in the United States.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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