Donald Trump could win the popular vote, the New York Times’s Nate Cohn wrote Friday, which would provide the former president with a mandate.
Cohn’s admission Trump could not only win the Electoral College vote but also claim the popular vote underscores the establishment media’s acknowledgment of Trump’s momentum with just 11 days until election.
The latest Time’s polling, published Friday, shows Trump is winning by one point nationally (with third party candidates included).
Cohn reported on the possibility of Trump winning the popular vote, which has not been won by a Republican in 20 years:
If Mr. Trump did win the popular vote this time, it would be straightforward to explain. The poll shows that Ms. Harris faces real headwinds — the kind that would ordinarily cost a candidate the election:
Just 28 percent of voters say the country is on the right track. No party has retained the White House (or won the popular vote) when such a small share of voters think things are going well.
President Biden’s approval rating is just 40 percent. No party has held the White House (or won the popular vote) when the president’s approval rating is that low.
The Times poll is not the only poll that shows Trump nationally in the lead. A Wall Street Journal survey showed Trump up three points, while an CNBC poll found him up two points.
The race, however, is still very close. Trump faces headwinds from the administrative state, federal agencies, big tech, big media, and Obama/Clinton world. Democrats and their allies will work tirelessly over the next three weeks to prevent Trump from completing the greatest political comeback in modern American politics.https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/25/nyts-nate-cohn-donald-trump-could-win-popular-vote/I got to thinking that, if Trump wins the popular vote decisively, I wonder how the leftist states who have voted for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would react?
They have always thought that Dems would be the ones who would receive the popular vote.
Rescind their approval of the Compact?
I also find it interesting to note that for decades the ingredient the GOP have used to take control is to sweep the south, without using Southerners as nominees(W excluded, with his daddy a questionable Southerner).
Now it seems the GOP had found its path forward might be a true NY Yankee who appeals to Southerners, something unheard of since Civil War days.
