Political Quotes

“We are told that Trump has a mandate and that, as a result of this election, the Republicans have a mandate to outlaw interstate travel by pregnant women, to deport 20 million people, to trash NATO, trash the dollar, and slash Social Security. Let us look at this mandate. Let's try to see the size of the mandate. There it is, that little area there. Mandate, my ass. This is the smallest possible differential between the two parties. If we can put up the next chart. Let's compare this mandate historically. Calvin Coolidge, that is a mandate. He won the popular vote by 25.2 percent. Joe Biden, 4\1/2\ points. Mr. Speaker, that is three times the mandate that is being claimed by the Trump administration. This chart shows an edge for Trump of 1.7 percent. Since we created that chart, California has finally counted its votes. We in California, we take a month to vote, and then we take a month to count the votes. They are still valid. So it is really 1.5 percent difference. Compare that to Hillary Clinton's mandate. In 2016, she beat Trump by 2.1 percent of the popular vote. That might be a mandate, but this here, that is a squeaker. That is like saying you watch a football game and one team beats the other 48 to 47 because of a missed extra point, and that is a blowout? Hardly. There is no mandate to outlaw interstate travel by pregnant women or to trash NATO or deport 20 million people.…”