Lawrence: The election was not even close to a landslide.
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, they are still counting votes in America, especially in California, where the deadline |
| 0:05.4 | for mail-in ballots to arrive on time to be counted is tomorrow night. |
| 0:13.1 | Ballots received in the mail tomorrow will be counted in California. |
| 0:17.0 | So there are literally millions of ballots yet to be counted in this country, |
| 0:23.6 | including in the state of Pennsylvania, where thousands of votes remain to be counted to |
| 0:28.0 | determine the balance of the United States Senate. Republicans will probably have 52 senators |
| 0:34.4 | next year or 53 if Republicans win the Pennsylvania Senate election. The Democrats |
| 0:41.2 | will probably have 47 members of the Senate of 48 if Democrat Bob Casey wins the Pennsylvania Senate |
| 0:47.3 | race. We still don't know which party will control the House of Representatives, but we do |
| 0:53.4 | know that it will be very close. |
| 0:55.9 | As of tonight, Republicans have 214 seats in the House and Democrats have 205 seats in the House, |
| 1:01.5 | according to NBC News, with 16 remaining to be decided. In the presidential vote, Donald Trump |
| 1:06.4 | currently has 50.2 percent of the vote to Kamala Harris's 48.1% of the vote, but that margin will |
| 1:14.8 | probably narrow. After all, the California votes are finally counted, and it is possible |
| 1:20.9 | that Kamala Harris will end up with only 1% of the vote less than Donald Trump, a 1% gap. Right now, she's at 2% less |
| 1:32.2 | than Donald Trump. If you hear anyone calling this election a landslide, please stop listening |
| 1:37.6 | to that person about elections, at least. We have seen landslides in this country, and they don't look like this election. |
| 1:47.0 | Bill Clinton's re-election was never in doubt in 1996. He won with 49.2% of the vote against |
| 1:53.5 | Bob Dole's 40.7% of the vote and Ross Perrault's 8.4% of the vote. Bill Clinton won by nine points, and no one called |
| 2:03.1 | that a landslide because it wasn't. The last landslide we had was Ronald Reagan's re-election in |
| 2:09.4 | 1984, where he won 49 states in the Electoral College with only the state of Minnesota voting for |
| 2:16.1 | Walter Mondale, who was from Minnesota. Ronald Reagan |
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