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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Great and again the 50% doesn't matter, he's the president under law and because of that he can set the mandate. He might have gotten less votes then Hillary but clearly Hillary ran a bad and pretty arrogant campaign and turned off the vote major states. But as President Trump doesn't have to worry about Mandates he doesn't have to worry about the popular vote and he can pretty much say that he has the ability and power given to him because of the last election results to say things like I'm giving America back to the people.
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I disagree entirely. He has to care because he most likely wants to get re-elected in 4 years. (if there's anything America is good at its worrying about elections years in advance!) He also has to worry about alienating people and causing congress to flip in 2 years and making his job much more difficult. He also has to worry about banking political capital for times he disagrees with the current congress on things.
Obama won 2 elections pretty easily and had to spend most of his presidency grinding for any bit of progress he could. Winning the election is only the introduction to trying to enact an agenda. So all those buzzwords like mandate, optics, etc do matter.