Pelosi defends election results: 'It was a great victory'

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Pelosi defends election results: 'It was a great victory'
By Mike Lillis - 11/20/20 12:50 PM EST

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday defended the Democrats' underperformance at the polls this year, arguing that voter turnout for House Democrats — because it surpassed that for President Trump — marked "a great victory" for the party despite the loss of seats in the lower chamber.

"Did you know that House Democrats got nearly 2 million more votes than Donald Trump?" she asked reporters in the Capitol. "Everybody turned out and it was a great victory — a mandate."

Technically, Pelosi's assessment is correct. As of Friday afternoon, House Democratic candidates had, collectively, received 75.5 million votes across the country, versus 73.7 million votes for Trump and 72.1 million for House Republican candidates, according to a tally kept by The New York Times. President-Election Joe Biden topped all groups, with 79.7 million votes.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/526887-pelosi-defends-election-results-it-was-a-great-victory

[skeeter]

Pelosi doesn't care if she has a majority amounting to one seat - it'll always be a 'mandate' because she doesn't give two sh*ts what we think about what she's doing, if she can she's just gonna do it.