NEWT GINGRICH: Surprise move by some Democrats could have huge consequences for Trump [Video]

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President Donald J. Trump carried a plurality of the popular vote and won the electoral college decisively (312 to 226). This has given his second presidency a unique feeling of authority – indeed a mandate from the American people.

President Abraham Lincoln’s rule that with popular sentiment anything is possible and without popular sentiment nothing is possible is being borne out right in front of us.

According to Rasmussen Reports, 55 percent of American voters believed the election conferred a clear mandate for President Trump’s policies. Only 32 percent thought he did not have a mandate (13 percent were not sure).

This is almost 2:1 support for a mandate for the Trump agenda among those who have made up their minds.

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