by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC
Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why
they matter.
Let's be crystal clear: Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election,
and he's set to become the nation's 45th president three days from now.
But it's also hard to ignore the huge asterisks next to his victory.
Despite winning the Electoral College, he lost the popular vote and saw
just 46% of the country vote for him (versus 53% for Barack Obama in
2008 and 51% in 2012). In addition, the U.S. intelligence community
concluded that Russia's government interfered in the election to hurt
Hillary Clinton and help Trump -- which Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) cited as
his rationale to cast doubt on Trump's legitimacy. Throw in FBI Director
James Comey's own intervention in the waning days of the election, and
you have a good chunk of the country who doesn't think Trump won either
A) fair and square, or B) decisively enough to have a broad mandate to
govern. And now following Lewis' lead, more than 40 congressional Democrats say they won't be attending Friday's inauguration.
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Source: NBC News
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