Almost the entire vote margin is coastal CA
We will never know the precise margin of the popular vote.
In 2016 in California, Hillary was ahead in the vote count by about 2 million votes in the results announced the day after the election.
It was no surprise that Hillary carried California. But in the weeks that followed, as vote counting continued and additional votes were counted, from harvested and absentee ballots, Hillary’s final official margin in California was an incredible 4.3 million votes.
Look at another way, Trump won both the popular and electoral votes comfortably in the rest of the country, if we back out California from the totals.
My personal opinion, is that we will never know, because after election day, as vote counting continued, and we knew Trump won the electoral vote, nobody was paying attention to vote counting continuing in California and other places.
It’s likely that fraud contributed to padding Hillary’s vote totals, which could well have put her over the top in the meaningless unofficial “popular vote” total nationwide. Could it be that the Democrats padded Hillary’s vote totals to feed the narrative that “Hillary won the popular vote”, to use as a talking point to de-legitimize Trump’s election in their view?
There’s another reason I’m skeptical about Hillary having “won” the popular vote. Hillary got about 48% of the vote nationwide, Trump got about 46%, and about 6% went for other candidates. Hillary did not get a majority of the popular vote.
Look at another way, 52%, a comfortable majority, wanted someone other than Hillary to be president.
I know all this is meaningless, and that only the electoral vote matters. Thank God for that.
in NJ , if the votes on valid provisional ballots will not mean anything for win they are not opened and tallied. Ans absentee ballots too?
Almost the entire vote margin is coastal CA