What did Donald Trump claim about elections on 1 May 2026?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
We won the popular vote the first time too, by a lot, by millions, but they had me down a little bit in the popular vote.
Trump lost the 2016 popular vote. Hillary Clinton got 2,868,686 more votes than he did.
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton received 65,853,514 votes (48.18 percent) and Trump 62,984,828 (46.09 percent), a margin of 2,868,686 in Clinton's favor (Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2016, p. 5).
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- Speech on benefits for senior citizens at The Villages, Florida.
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