Half Trump voters actually believe he won 2016 popular vote
Almost half of those who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election actually believe that he, not Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote, a poll shows.
Released Tuesday, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll showed that 49 percent of Trump voters think he also won the popular vote beside winning the Electoral one, which actually made him the president.
The poll was launched after the vice chair of Trump’s controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, questioned the popular results, saying "we may never know" whether Clinton won it.
Trump has himself claimed that, "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
According to official data, out of a total of almost 137 million votes cast, Clinton won nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
Like campaign days
President Trump has, meanwhile, repeated his campaign promises at a rally in the US state of Ohio.
Healthcare, an issue in which the administration has faced setbacks by failing to unite the US Congress, was only part of the message at the rally in Youngstown on Tuesday night.
The Republican president highlighted his trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, which yet has a lot to face in the Congress before turning to reality.
Trump also promoted his proposed wall on the Mexican border, for which he needs to secure funding first.
The former reality TV star had also vowed to bring jobs back.
“Don’t sell your house. We’re going to get those values up,” he said to his fans in Ohio, which has seen a 5 percent increase in unemployment in June, compared to 4.9 percent the previous month. “America must be united.”
Trump has so far failed to get his agenda through, in part by failing to effectively repeal and replace Obamacare despite the Republicans’ control over both chambers of the US Congress.
The hyped-up crowd of Trump’s supporters, meanwhile, chanted slogans such as “Build that wall!”
“I’m here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and to speak straight to the American people,” Trump said.
Since the 2016 campaign, Trump has repeatedly used the term "fake news" largely for any coverage criticizing him or his allies.
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