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United States Election
Kellyanne Conway once celebrated Trump’s “historic” victory. Now the tweet falls on his feet
Kellyanne Conway, one of the closest and most important advisers to US President Donald Trump, has announced that she will leave the White House at the end of the month.
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Donald Trump’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway, once called the election of the US president “historic.” However, in the context of the current elections, the tweet fails.
The tweet is euphoric: “Collapse. Overwhelming. Historic”: This is how adviser Kellyanne Conway celebrated the election of her boss Donald Trump as president of the United States. But the tweet posted in 2016 has aged extremely poorly. And now it doesn’t fit the message that Trump’s election team is trying to reach the people.
The fault is the number that precedes the superlatives: 306. It describes the number of voters that the then candidate Donald Trump knew how to conquer and that finally brought him victory. The problem: it is precisely the number of voters that the challenger and winner of the election Joe Biden has been able to win. According to Kellyanne’s own tweet, Trump would also have been crushingly beaten.
306. Landslide. Burst. Historical. https://t.co/ObYZDo8cBq
– Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 28, 2016
And: unlike Trump, Biden also appears to be able to win the majority of the vote, the so-called popular vote, on his own. Trump owed his “landslide victory” – other presidents had won to a much greater extent – exclusively to victory in the Electoral College, which, however, primarily benefits the smaller states. In total votes cast, he was three million votes behind. That was reason enough for Trump to question the legitimacy of his own election. The three million votes could only have been obtained by fraud, he was sure. Even the commission of inquiry that he had included could not prove it.
Attack from your own camp
Consequently, activists from the Lincoln Project Conways Tweet have now dug up again. “Okay” (sort of: we agree), they wrote in a retweet of Conways’ tweet, which was posted in the fall of 2016. It should be particularly painful for Trump that the nasty comment actually comes from his own side. Behind the Lincoln Project there are no supporters of the warring Democrats, but staunch Republicans. The group had been formed out of Trump’s own party in recent years and has been attacking the crimes of “its” president ever since.
But you shouldn’t like the implication of Conway’s tweet, either. Trump did not acknowledge Biden’s election victory even a week after it was first announced by the media, much less delivered the traditional speech about his defeat. Instead, the current president attempts to sue the count-and-count process. However, experts rate their efforts as futile.
Those: Twitter
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