How Trump made a claim that he was the biggest election winner since Reagan, which is false.
Since about 1980 the electoral college has had 538 votes. For those elections going forward, the percentage of electoral votes can be compared to each other straight up. Prior to that, since the number of electoral votes was lower, those elections can not be directly compared to the more recent ones without using a normalized total expressed as a percentage. Not the point, but figured I would point that out. So let's analyze the statement.
For the last 10 elections. The winner got:
1980 - 489 (Reagan)
1984 - 525 (Reagan - 2nd term)
1988 - 426 (George H. Bush)
1992 - 370 (Clinton)
1996 - 379 (Clinton - 2nd term)
2000 - 271 (George W. Bush)
2004 - 286 (George W. Bush - 2nd term)
2008 - 365 (Barack Obama)
2012 - 332 (Barack Obama - 2nd term)
2016 - 306 (Donald Trump)
As we can see it wasn't a true statement. Even if you limit it even further and say only Republican wins, George H. Bush received more than Trump in his win.
So, whoever gave him that information (if anyone really did) should be fired. :*)
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