overread. Trump claims a 'massive' mandate, but presidents often overread their victories

 

Trump claims a 'massive' mandate, but presidents often overread their victories

"[T]he beauty is that we won by so much. The mandate was massive," President-elect Donald Trump said of his 2024 presidential victory in an interview with Time magazine that was published Thursday after being named its "Person of the Year."

That claim echoes what Trump said during his victory speech last month.

"America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate," he said.

"And one thing we do know about elections, and it's very much true in 2024, is that elections seem to be kind of a broad referendum on the status quo."

Control of the House was so close that it came down to just 7,309 votes in three congressional races, according to the Cook Political Report's David Wasserman.

So how much of a mandate is that really?

"We're seeing this fit into a typical pattern where presidents kind of know that they're going to be embattled," Azari said. "They know that their viewpoints will be controversial. And so they use the mandate to try and suggest, all right, it's OK for me to do this or my critics are ultimately not just critics of me, but they're critics of the popular will."

Trump claims a 'massive' mandate, but presidents often overread their victories候

任總統唐納德·川普在被《時代》雜誌評為“年度人物”  後週四發表的採訪中談到他2024 年總統勝利時表示：“美妙之處在於我們以如此之大的優勢獲勝。

這一說法與川普上個月在勝利演講中所說的話相呼應。

「美國賦予了我們前所未有的強大授權，」他說。

「關於選舉，我們確實知道一件事，這在 2024 年是非常正確的，那就是選舉似乎是對現狀的一次廣泛公投。”

據《庫克政治報告》的戴維·沃瑟曼 (David Wasserman) 稱，眾議院的控制權如此接近，以至於在三場國會競選中，眾議院的選票只剩下 7,309 票。

那麼，這到底有多大的授權呢？

阿扎里說：“我們看到這符合典型的模式，即總統知道他們將陷入困境。” 「他們知道他們的觀點會引起爭議。所以他們利用授權來嘗試建議，好吧，我可以這樣做，否則我的批評者最終不僅是對我的批評，而且是對流行的批評。”

"Overread" has multiple meanings: 

• Verb: To read over or reread something 
• Adjective: To describe a book that has been read too much, or to describe someone who is excessively educated 
• Transitive verb: To interpret something in a more positive way or to a greater degree than is appropriate