“Being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trump's speeches for the last two or three weeks not the FBI but ObamaCare. That seems to me to be the thing that moved the votes in Michigan, that moved the votes in places where we otherwise Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.” TwoSeemsLastsThreeWeekFrontsTrumpSpeechVoteMovedCampaignsFbiObamacareMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsin Author:Rudy Giuliani
“All I want to say is that anybody, well, from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that - who's terrified of the possibility of President [Donald] Trump better vote, better get active, better get involved, because this man has got some momentum and we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket.” ThinkingMenWantWellsFactsMightSidesPresidentPossibilityReadyTrumpInvolvedRepublicanVoteDemocraticActiveTicketsTerrifiedFenceGet InvolvedMomentum Author:Keith Ellison
“I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.” ThinkingDoneHouseTrumpRepublicanTaxesPercentVoteMajorityDemocraticReformSenateGet It DoneBipartisanTax Reform Author:Rudy Giuliani
“In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf of peace and on international - and a policy based on international law and human rights.” HumansImportantLawOrderFightingRightsPolicyTrumpVoteClintonInternationalHuman RightsCastsBehalfInternational LawMilitarism Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.” PeopleWillingTrumpRepublicanOfficeMessagesVoteCandidates Author:Steve Inskeep
“I'm actually cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will be so bad that he will force America to wake up and realise that forcing America to vote for right wing Republicans is always a terrible idea. It's never been a good idea, but what happened here is you have a president like Obama who gives you eight years of relative stability and prosperity, and people forget that Republicans are just terrible, not just for the country but for the planet. Maybe this is America's equivalent of bottoming out, like a crystal meth addict going on one last big run before they have to get sober.” PeopleGivingYearsIdeasCountryBigsRunningLastsAmericaForcePresidentForgetHappenedPlanetsTrumpTerribleRepublicanVoteWake UpWingsProsperityEightOptimisticRealisingStabilityRelativeGood IdeasSoberAddictCrystalsRight WingCrystal Meth Author:Moby
“[Donald] Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it.” PresidentEnemyGoneTheoryTrumpVotePressesFlagsPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.” WayYearsSelfCrazyTrumpVoteClaimsJustifyTweetPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.” ThinkingNightWorstTrumpVoteIllegalWorst ThingsTweet Author:Chuck Todd
“President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.” FeelsLostPresidentTrumpVoteNot HappyPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“Hillary Clinton`s popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump`s percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.” MillionsTrumpPercentVoteClintonPercentagesPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992.” ThreeHousePresidentWhiteTrumpVoteBillsClintonWhite HousePercentagesWilsonPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“I take great solace in the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote. Hillary Clinton got over 2.5 million more votes than Donald Trump got. So I can't say in any way that the people think that harassing women is appropriate. So I don't think we should read into his victory the fact that, you know, women's rights are going to be diminished.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayShouldI CanFactsLostMillionsRightsTrumpVictoryVoteClintonAppropriateWomens RightsSolacePopular Vote Author:Barbara Boxer
“I can't predict if I will see a woman president, but I think I may well because, again, Hillary Clinton got more votes probably than any other Democratic candidate ever, except for Obama. But she got more votes than Trump and she got more votes than Richard Nixon got when he won the election, more votes than John Kennedy got when he won.” IfsThinkingWellsMayI CanPresidentTrumpVoteElectionDemocraticClintonCandidatesJohn Kennedy Author:Barbara Boxer
“[Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.” IfsThreeLosesTrumpRepublicanVoteCongressInvestigationScandalTaintedSubpoenas Author:Norman L. Eisen
“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.” PeopleOrderProcessMillionsHappenedTrumpVoteClintonHonestlyFewerRight Place Author:Michael Lewis
“Hillary [Clinton] had all these A-listers, well, look at this parade of losers that did that video encouraging electors to not vote for [Donald] Trump.” WellsLooksTrumpVoteClintonVideoLoserParades Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump wasn't vying for the popular vote. He was vying for the Electoral College, as was Hillary Clinton. The only difference is he got over 300 electoral votes, and she did not.” DifferencesCollegeTrumpVoteClintonElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote.” DoeImagineTrumpVoteRomneyScenariosHispanic Author:Julian Castro
“It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.” NeedsWould BeUsedWinningForceCommonMistakeEconomicCryTrumpAnxietyVoteTradeThreatFocusedPartnersCampaignsNarrativeBordersThemeImmigrantsOutsidersSimilarityRallyingRallying Cry Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.” GrowingTrumpRepublicanVoteStatementsMinoritiesRacistAlarms Author:David Remnick
“Donald Trump winning the electoral vote - I don't even want to say he won the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote - I don't think legitimizes reality TV, but I think reality TV legitimized Trump.” ThinkingWantRealityWinningTvsTrumpVoteElectionClintonReality TvPopular Vote Author:Jennifer Pozner
“Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates.” ThinkingWellsStatesNextPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyTeamPolicyTrumpVote Author:Barack Obama
“I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself.” ThinkingWayBigsRealityAmericaNextWinningPresidentPositionTrumpOfficeAspectVoteAssumptionWakingChunks Author:Barack Obama
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.” ShouldMayHouseWhiteFiguresSeriousTrumpVoteMajorityStrategyCongressComplicatedAdministrationWhite HouseObamacarePopular VoteRepealing Author:William Kristol
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.” IfsMenBelieveLongUseTogetherUsedWhitePartyRichTrumpRepublicanShotsVoteMajorityStrategyTeaMinoritiesWhite ManTacticsRepresentingTea PartyPopular VoteLong Shots Author:Ezra G. Levin
“If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election.” IfsMenWayWinningCryTrumpGeniusVoteElection Author:Jim Brown
“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.” WantWellsLooksSaidFacesSidesPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionDefinedPrimariesGet AwayColleaguesRepublican PartyAisleDisrespectful Author:Maxine Waters
“What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.” MayWhiteBrotherTrumpDegreesVoteEnormousBrandsGasBigotryBrothers And SistersConsolingAnimus Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.” PeopleWantMatterBigsAmericaGuyMillionsTeamTrumpVoteWho You ArePreparedSurpriseDinnerWant HimBowlingBig SurprisesBraggartsBlowhards Author:Randy Newman
“If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.” IfsTwoFightingChanceTrumpRepublicanVoteSightDemocratMeritCandidatesConsideringUnseen Author:Kevin Drum
“When we look at the Trump candidacy or we look at any Republican candidacy for the presidency that's been successful, they tend to win by the margin of black and brown and poor people and immigrants who do not vote.” PeopleLooksWinningBlackPoorSuccessfulTrumpRepublicanVoteBrownImmigrantsPresidencyPoor PeopleMarginsCandidacy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter is also someone who is dealing with an entirely new economy that his father, grandfather or grandmother didn't have to face 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago.” IfsYearsFacesGuyFatherWhiteEconomyTrumpYears AgoVoteSouthIgnorantEducatedGrandmotherVotersGrandfatherWhite Guys Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindPlayChoicesEasyHappenedPolicyIgnoranceTrumpPureConversationVoteDevelopingVotersGrossClicheElitistBad ChoicesCandidacy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump has clearly put conservative around him, he's clearly taking conservative policy positions, and I think for conservatives, the first, most important pick was selecting Mike Pence, then picking Neil Gorsuch to fill this tiebreaking vote on the Supreme Court. Looking at the Cabinet. Most conservatives are pretty happy.” ThinkingFirstsImportantPolicyPositionTrumpPicksVoteCourtConservativeSupremeSupreme CourtMikeCabinets Author:Matt Schlapp
“You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.” WorldFactsHouseWhiteConditionsTrumpPercentTraditionVoteThirdsConstitutionRegardDemocraticPrimariesWhite HouseSocialistThird WorldImportsPopulistWorld Politics Author:Van Jones
“You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote.” KnowsThreeLostMillionsKnow HowFiveFashionExampleTrumpVoteElectionIncrediblesReactionsInsanityInstantOrganizedImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigrants Author:Noam Chomsky
“The people who didn't vote for [Donald Trump], didn't watch his rallies. They only know what the media said about him.” PeopleKnowsSaidWatchesMediaTrumpVote Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it.” CountrySufferingLosesTrumpVoteOur CountryAfrican American Author:Donald Trump
“I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.” KnowsPersonsWantedChangedTrumpVoteClintonPutin Author:Jim Sensenbrenner
“I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.” Has BeensWinningTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionBritain Author:Mohsin Hamid
“People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.” PeopleDoeWarHardSocialLeaderEconomicPolicyTrumpVotePrisonMalesCaringCampaignsBackgroundsHealthcareTechnologicalConditioningUpheavalChildcare Author:Riane Eisler
“For those who simply voted because Donald Trump was the Republican and you should vote for the Republican: it's baffling to me, how you can call yourself a Christian and support a man who embodies everything that Christ fought against.” MenShouldChristianChristSupportTrumpRepublicanVote Author:Reza Aslan
“I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.” ThinkingWayKindChanceMistakeTrumpVoteSorry Author:Reza Aslan
“I think a lot of people vote in fear. People like Donald Trump are good at casting this shadow of fear over people, making them believe if they don't vote for him then the terrorists are going to get them or whatever. All his ways are to scare people to vote for him. It's so sad.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveTrumpShadowVoteTerroristScareCastingSo Sad Author:Jim James
“Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.” FeelsCountryTrumpVote Author:Nicole Polizzi