During the past several months, the public and the news media have gotten to the point of saying that Donald Trump won the 2016 election. How could he have won that race? After all, Hillary Clinton got about 3 million more votes than Trump received, and usually it’s the person that gets the most votes that gets the job.
But, thanks to wording set forth in the regulations governing the Electoral College’s job, we ended up with Donald Trump as our president.
So instead of everyone (including the news media) now saying that Trump won that 2016 presidential election contest, shouldn’t we be saying that Hillary Clinton easily won that race, but thanks to the wording found in the regulations governing the Electoral College, Donald Trump was awarded the job of being the new president.
Hopefully, within a few years, history will accurately show that Hilary Clinton did win that 2016 political contest but that Donald Trump got the job thanks to the existence of those Electoral College rules and regulations.
But it’s going to take a lot more than just me writing a letter to the editor to be assured of that happening.
