[justinator]

You don't need > 50% of the votes to make a majority when you're pool is more than 2, which it was. Weird thing to hang your hat on.

[treetalker]

Majority means > 50%. Perhaps you meant plurality.

Regardless, US presidential elections do not depend on getting a majority or even a plurality of popular votes, but rather on a majority of electoral votes. And Trump did not get a majority of popular votes as claimed.

This being HN, the fact-check seemed appropriate and I stand by it.

[justinator]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority

Of the definitions, seems like the third is correct for this context:

3 : the group or political party having the greater number of votes (as in a legislature)

>And Trump did not get a majority of popular votes as claimed.

I would think that he did.