[He spoke about his continued use of the falsehood about his electoral college win being the biggest since Ronald Reagan. “Trump’s been repeating this lie since election day,” he said. “If you can’t trust your president to get the right information on a Google-able fact then can you really trust him with the harder stuff, which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.” (Source: Late-night hosts on Trump's disastrous press conference: 'We elected a mess' at <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/17/late-night-tv-trump-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert>.)
Trump has often bragged of his Electoral College victory, and has incorrectly referred to it as a "landslide" when only 12 elections have ever been closer, as The New York Times points out. (Source: <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/02/16/trump-falsely-claims-biggest-electoral-win-since-reagan/98002648/>.) For a detailed factual analysis of Trump's press conference on Thursday: <http://www.npr.org/2017/02/16/515608127/transcript-and-analysis-trump-press-conference-on-labor-secretary-russia>.] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-trumps-victory-was-not-the-biggest-electoral-college-win-since-reagan/ No, Trump's victory was not the biggest Electoral College win since Reagan Last Updated Feb 16, 2017 2:25 PM EST President Trump claimed at a White House event Thursday that his victory last November was “the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.” That claim is false. [Video: President Trump's assertion that he had the largest electoral college victory since Ronald Reagan is far from the truth. When confronted with the facts, he said he was "given that information."] In 2012, President Obama defeated his GOP rival, Mitt Romney, with 332 electoral votes. In 2008, Obama won the election against Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, with 365 electoral votes. In 1996, President Clinton defeated Republican Bob Dole with 379 votes. In 1992, Clinton won against President George H.W. Bush, the incumbent, with 370 electoral votes. In 1988, Bush won the presidency with 426 votes. Confronted with the facts by a reporter during the question-and-answer part of the event, Mr. Trump claimed that, “I was given that information...I’ve seen that information around.” Mr. Trump also claimed, as he has repeatedly, that he was elected with 306 Electoral College votes. That’s also false. When Congress certified the tally in early January, the official results were that Mr. Trump won with 304 votes and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won 227 votes. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
