NO Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump Did Not win in a Electoral College Landslide.

President Donald Trump claimed and Rush Limbaugh is still claiming that Trump won in a Electoral College landslide.  But was Trump's win really a Electoral College landslide???  Nope.  As has been pointed out from fact checking websites, Trump’s Electoral College margin of victory ranked 46th out of the 58 U.S. Presidential elections. (1) (2)

How does Trump’s Electoral College margin of victory ranks during  the last 12 Presidential elections?  President Trump’s Electoral College margin of victory ranks at number nine during the last 12 Presidential elections.  Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980 and in 1984, Bush in 1988, Clinton in 1992 and in 1996, and Obama in 2008 and in 2012 got more electoral votes than what Trump got in 2016.  

Out of the 14 Battleground and swing States during this last Presidential election, Donald Trump’s popular vote margin over Hillary Clinton was just 1.21%. (3) (4)

And as for Michigan, which has 16 electoral votes, President Trump's popular vote margin over Hillary Clinton was just only 0.223%. The Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson got 3.587% of the vote while the far left-wing Green candidate Jill Stein got 1.07% of the vote there. (5) 


1.  http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/trump-landslide-nope/

2.  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/12/donald-trump/donald-trumps-electoral-college-victory-was-not-ma/

3.  Trump - 24,019,066 - 47.98%  —  Clinton - 23,414,721 - 46.77%  —  Others - 2,632,130 - 5.25%

4.  2016 Battleground and swing States were Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

5.  http://miboecfr.nictusa.com/election/results/2016GEN_CENR.html