Almost half of those who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election actually believe that he, not Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote, a poll shows.
Released Tuesday, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll showed that 49 percent of Trump voters think he also won the popular vote beside winning the Electoral one, which actually made him the president.
The poll was launched after the vice chair of Trump’s controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, questioned the popular results, saying “we may never know” whether Clinton won it.
Trump has himself claimed that, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
According to official data, out of a total of almost 137 million votes cast, Clinton won nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
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