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Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Landslide’ Boasts Come Back To Haunt Them

The president and his former aide received a stark reminder of comments they made in November 2016.
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CNN’s “Newsroom” hit President Donald Trump with a montage of his boasts about winning the 2016 election in a “landslide” after it was projected that President-elect Joe Biden would win the 2020 election by the same number of Electoral College votes.

There’s one key difference between Trump’s claims four years ago following his victory over Hillary Clinton and the reality now, though.

Biden’s margin of victory in the popular vote is projected to be more than 5 million.

Trump, meanwhile, lost the popular vote to Clinton by almost 3 million.

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Twitter users also threw Trump’s brags back at him:

Similarly, this November 2016 tweet from former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also went viral on Friday:

It attracted the attention of The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump GOP group co-founded by her husband, attorney George Conway:

And others too:

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