{"id":319036,"date":"2017-07-26T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-trump-voters-actually-believe-he-won-2016-popular-vote\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:37:57","slug":"half-trump-voters-actually-believe-he-won-2016-popular-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/half-trump-voters-actually-believe-he-won-2016-popular-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Trump voters actually believe he won 2016 popular vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was launched after the vice chair of Trump\u2019s controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, questioned the popular results, saying &#8220;we may never know&#8221; whether Clinton won it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has himself claimed that, &#8220;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to official data, out of a total of almost 137 million votes cast, Clinton won nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like campaign days<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170726\/0bdd4a3b-4afd-4996-9e21-1678d5f25045.jpg\"\/><figcaption>US&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/26\/529792\/Trump-won-popular-vote-Half-of-fans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}