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NYmag: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

Posted by: Antibody on Jan 03, 11:38

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.

As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. His ultimate goal, after all, had never been to win. “I can be the most famous man in the world,” he had told his aide Sam Nunberg at the outset of the race.

NYmag: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President Antibody Jan 03, 11:38

Donald Trump just blew up the electoral college map. Trump received 304 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 227. TJNFL1 Jan 03, 12:05

"Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy." {nm} Antibody Jan 03, 12:27

neither did the 2,864,974 more voters who had their choice subverted by the Electoral College {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 03, 12:27

"Blew up" is more willful ignorance from him. Trump won the electoral college by 200k votes in 3 states. {nm} Moviesnob Jan 03, 13:01

So more libs voted in CA. Big deal. Look at the battleground states where they both campaigned and spent billions. DanU Jan 03, 15:47

weirdly, no other western democracy has an electoral college and the candidate who gets the most votes from the entire population wins {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 03, 15:49

As the United States, all states should have a say, not just the most populated ones. DanU Jan 03, 16:00

If he didn't care about the popular vote, then why did he claim non-existence voter fraud and form a comission, which he just dissolved. Antibody Jan 03, 16:08

I said he didn't run to get the popular vote. They both ran to get the 270 Electoral votes College votes. DanU Jan 03, 16:16

As the book pointed out, Trump actually ran to lose and start his own TV channel. {nm} Antibody Jan 03, 16:25

i suspect almost everyone on this board cares less about the process and more about the outcome {nm} Moviesnob Jan 03, 16:12

the electoral college was a concession to the slave states to give them outsized influence versus the urban northern states. democracy is slipping jimmy Jan 03, 16:15

If you wanna blow up the system. Fine by me but let's do it before hand instead of ****ing after the fact. {nm} DanU Jan 03, 16:18

it's not a new complaint. everyone has known what a joke the electoral college is since 2000 {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 03, 16:19

Sucks when Al Gore can't even win his home state...hehe I remember the "complaining". {nm} DanU Jan 03, 16:22

lololol, overturning the expressed will of the people {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 03, 16:24

Still serves an important purpose. A little protection from 10% of counties dictating to 90%, 17% of states dictating to 33%, 10% of land PhoneHome Jan 03, 17:46

elections express the will of actual voters, not land acreage. "one person one vote" is the constitutional standard. the most votes win. {nm} slipping jimmy Jan 03, 17:52

No, the Electoral College is the constitutional standard. See article above on Electoral College. {nm} TJNFL1 Jan 03, 19:02

If the outcome was different, you could point out that only 27% of the eligible voters voted for your opponent Moviesnob Jan 03, 18:42





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