As the smoke cleared after the November 5^th election, Donald Trump was declared the winner of a decisive victory having received 312 Electoral Votes with 270 needed to win. Trump won about 58 percent of the Electoral College, yet he won only 50.2 percent of the popular vote. That’s hardly decisive. He just squeaked through in terms of any perceived mandate. Why the 8 percent difference between the Electoral College and the Popular Vote? It’s because the Electoral College is skewed towards rural, Republican states. Republicans get more representation in the Electoral College than they would in the popular vote.

Trump’s election is hardly a mandate. But I also have a lot of other questions about this election.

First, why did 6,816,888 fewer people vote for the Republican and Democratic candidates? While Trump gained 1.6 million votes over his 2020 total, Kamala Harris did 8.4 million less that Biden did in 2020. There could be a number of reasons for this happening.