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Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

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[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He lost the majority vote so technically not a majority of voting Americans voted for him.

[โ€“] oxjox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a bit concerning that you have this fact mistaken.

Trump: 77,168,458 49.9%
Harris: 74,749,891 48.3%

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqnemxwvx/president/

[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah you're right it was just a extremely close gap after all the tallying was done. Shows how bad memory can be.