File beneath Tweets With a Contaminated Shelf-Existence: Kellyanne Conway’s 2016 tweet hyping President Donald Trump’s 306-vote electoral school victory as a “landslide” has approach reduction to haunt her now that CNN has projected president-elect Joe Biden has defeated Trump with, yes, 306 electoral votes.
“306. Landslide. Blowout. Historical,” wrote Conway, who became Trump’s campaign adviser when he won. She became quoting a tweet from CNN Politics, which announced the last electoral school tally on the close of November 2016.
CNN announced Friday that the last tally of electoral votes for the 2020 election is Biden: 306, Trump, 232, with Biden flipping five states that Trump won in 2016 (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona.) President Trump and his allies touted the 306 prefer heavily after his 2016 accumulate.
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Ohio Democratic chair David Pepper added onto Conway’s outdated tweet, “Now imagine winning the approved vote by millions too…”
Pepper’s notify tosses salt on the GOP disaster, in that Trump not handiest misplaced the electoral school to Biden, he also misplaced the approved vote by greater than 5 million. In 2016, Clinton had 2.5 million more approved votes than Trump. Creator Cliff Schecter extinct that truth as an opportunity to inform up one in every of Conway’s outdated gaffes, calling the Biden accumulate “Bowling-Inexperienced-Massacre-level ancient.”
Extinct ambassador to Russia Dr. Michael McFaul wrote, “Historical previous repeats! Taking a question forward @KellyannePolls to your gracious assertion in enhance of our President-elect.”
Trump generally referenced his electoral school victory via his four-year presidency, which ends on January 20 when the president-elect is sworn in. In 2018, Trump tweeted, “The Dems accept tried each trick in the playbook-name me every thing beneath the sun. However if I’m all of these ghastly things, how approach I beat them so badly, 306-223? Presumably they’re appropriate not very honest! The reality is that they are going CRAZY handiest because they know they’ll’t beat me in 2020!”
Listed below are about a varied reactions to Conway’s “ancient” tweet:
And appropriate indulge in that, the girl identified for #alternativefacts goes soundless !@WhiteHouse @FoxNews @GOP @realDonaldTrump
— chatterbox (@chatter16979696) November 13, 2020
Are not these the precise phrases @KellyannePolls extinct in 2016? “Huge! Landslide!” *rolls eyes*
— Donna M. Schmid (@DonnaMSchmid) November 13, 2020
The one and handiest time I’m going to gleefully retweet @KellyannePolls, and a symbolic closing of the “A Tweet for Every little thing” circle. https://t.co/ZpUZieApiD
— Richard Jeter (@MilesToGo13) November 13, 2020
Awfully restful over there @KellyannePolls
— Bendigo Shafter (@Bendigo_Shafter) November 13, 2020
