On election night, President-elect Donald Trump said voters had handed him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” More recently, he told Time magazine: “The beauty is that we won by so much. The ...

Mandates are huge expressions of public support to get something done. In national elections, they give newly elected presidents powerful momentum at the start of a new term. Donald Trump believes he ...

Though Trump overwhelmingly won the electoral college vote, his tally in the popular vote is hardly a landslide. In the last 75 years, only three other presidents had popular-vote margins that were ...

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