#176 In which neutrality will get you nowhere

Sometimes we here at ConstiToonies HQ like to do a little research to back up the things Fearless Leader tosses off in one of his notorious rambles. Everyone knows that the man of wealth and taste has disparaging the broadcast media, calling the networks “an arm of the Democrat party” who are out to get him. Presumably this does not include the Fox Network, but one never knows, does one. Maybe manipulating Fox as a support arm of MAGA is actually a cunning plan on Chuck Schumer’s part to lull the right into complacency. In any case, the Trumpster was quoted thus: “I have read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me, I get 97 percent negative, and yet I won and easily.” That was where we decided to do some research, not on the 97% (he’s probably right about that, and if they’re not 97% against him, they should be), but on the “won and easily.” In 2024 Trump’s popular vote margin was 1.62% over Harris. That, dear sir, is not an easy win, and while the electoral college vote looks more one-sided, flipping a mere 3 states would have changed everything. And just to clarify the record, in 2016 he lost the popular vote to Crooked Hillary by a greater margin than he beat Harris by in 2024. 

If you’re looking for mathematicians, we recommend you look elsewhere than the White House.