Donald Trump spread lies about the 2024 election to claim he had a broad mandate over a vanquished Democratic Party.
The president won the Electoral College and became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988, and while the vast majority of counties shifted in his direction, Trump's margin of victory – just 1.5 percentage points over Kamala Harris – was one of the smallest in history and fell short of winning a majority of the popular vote, at just 49.7 percent.
"I won the Presidential Election in a landslide, won ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, THE POPULAR VOTE, AND ALL FIFTY STATES SHIFTED REPUBLICAN, a record, and now I have the best polling numbers I’ve ever had," Trump posted Friday morning on Truth Social.
Trump boasted to a gathering of Republican governors that his approval rating was around 70 percent, but no publicly available data shows his approval within 20 points of that number, and several polls show a majority disapproves of the job he's done in the first month.
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"The Democrats, run by broken down losers like James Carville, whose weak of mind and body, are going crazy, and just don’t know what to do," Trump posted. "They have lost their confidence and spirit - They have lost their minds! We are going to have big WINS for our Country, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. It’s already happening, and will get bigger and better than ever before!"
The congressional Republican majorities have largely backed Trump's moves – from confirming scandal-tainted Cabinet nominees, allowing Elon Musk to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce and upending decades of U.S. foreign policy – without much pushback, and their approval rating has jumped 12 percent since last month to 29 percent, riding a 42-point surge in approval among GOP voters.
However, fewer than four in 10 voters – 38 percent – believe constitutional system of checks and balance is working well, and 54 percent think it's not working well, although a majority of Republicans – 57 percent – believe it's working well, while 80 percent of Democrats believe it's not working well.
