“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said. He quickly added that “the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement.”

Upon learning that he had won a clear election victory, Donald Trump responded, as is his custom, with a transparent lie. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he gloated.

The idea behind an electoral mandate is pretty straightforward: Presidential candidates present voters with a series of ideas they want to pursue in office, and if they win, they claim that they have the nation’s backing in support of that agenda.

Former President Trump declared the country had delivered him and Republicans an “unprecedented mandate” as he took a victory lap early Wednesday after multiple outlets projected he would win the