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Despite losing popular vote, Donald Trump won in ‘electoral landslide,’ GOP’s Reince Priebus says

Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the Trump margin comes up short in another way. From 1952 to 2012, the winning candidate got an average of 73 percent of the electoral votes, well above Trump’s 57 percent.