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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
Trump is more popular than Lincoln was.
Lincoln got 39.8% of the popular vote in 1860
Trump got 46.1% of the popular vote in 2016
Those are facts.
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Chumpy said Poll numbers. There were no poll numbers in 1860.
He never claimed by popular election.
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Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan."
— Donald Trump on Sunday, July 29th, 2018 in a tweet
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And for your info, he could never compare his election numbers with Lincoln's fairly. There were more than two presidential contenders in the United States presidential election of 1860, who got more tan a few percentage points. So the vote got split 4 ways. Apples to oranges.
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
