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What mandate? Trump's popular vote lead is slimmest since Bush-Gore

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Donald Trump still has not secured a majority of the popular vote.

According to the Cook Political Report , he has netted 76.8 million votes to Kamala Harris' 74.2 million votes.

If the current margin of roughly 2.4 million votes holds, it will be the closest margin of victory since the contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000 .

House Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly brought up Trump 's supposed "mandate".

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formal

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English

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44

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