The Great Exception
Big Conflicts Loom as Trump's Not Deemed President of California
In the end, the polls truly were off base: Donald Trump lost California by even more than expected.
Not since FDR trounced Alf Landon in 1936 has a GOP presidential candidate run worse here than Trump. He’s on track to collect less than one-third of California’s vote and, like Landon, managed the difficult feat of losing former Republican bastion Orange County.
All this is small solace, of course, to the plurality of Americans who handed Democrat Hillary Clinton a popular-vote victory, now expected at two million votes, while watching Trump capture the White House with a 306-232 Electoral College triumph, built on flipping three Rust Belt states into his column by a total of about 100,000 ballots.
