Expert calls bluff on Trump claim: He knows he's 'going to be embattled'
Raw StoryPresident-elect Donald Trump has claimed a massive mandate after his 2024 election win even though he did not even secure 50 percent of the popular vote and even though his party faces a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives. But in an interview with NPR, Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari argues that Trump is claiming a mandate far vaster than the one he was actually given because he knows he's going to face significant resistance in enacting his agenda. "We're seeing this fit into a typical pattern where presidents kind of know that they're going to be embattled," Azari said. Azari then said that very few presidents have real mandates given that voters often make their decisions for varied and complicated reasons, and that is even the case with past presidents such as Lyndon Johnson who won a legitimate landslide victory in 1964 where he won 61 percent of the popular vote and carried 44 states.
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