Popular vote totals make Trump’s ‘mandate’ look like a mirage

Mihaela Păun

Donald Trump won the popular vote, but more Americans voted against him than for him — discrediting Republican talk about an electoral "mandate." As the latest episode of NBC News’ “Meet the Press” began, host Kristen Welker welcomed Sen. Eric Schmitt onto the program. Ordinarily, guests respond with some brief pleasantries before the interview begins in earnest, but the Missouri Republican went in a different direction. Before Welker even asked her first question, the GOP senator began by

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