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Summary

Donald Trump narrowly won the 2024 presidential election, securing the smallest popular vote margin for a victor in modern U.S. history, with just 1.6% over Kamala Harris.

Despite his win, Democrats performed unexpectedly well in down-ballot races, flipping Senate seats in swing states Trump carried and maintaining the House balance.

Republicans lack a clear mandate as Trump’s plans for deportations, ending birthright citizenship, political retribution, and tariffs clash with voters’ hopes for economic relief.

There’s likely to be backlash as voters realize the gap between what they wanted and what Trump plans to deliver.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Less than 50% of those who voted. And I doubt even all of those wanted Trump's agenda, many either didn't understand or didn't believe he would do some of the things he says.

So I disagree that the country as a whole wanted this. Obviously most did not.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 days ago

Less than 50% of those who voted.

That's unfortunately/fortunately the only ones that count. The ones that didn't want this, but didn't want this bad enough to actually get out and vote can continue to do so in silence.

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If they truly cared they should have voted. The ones that didn’t vote are passively for this as well. They saw the same things as everyone else and thought it’s fine.