In 2016, Trump became the fifth president to lose the popular vote. His losing margin - 2.86 million votes - is more than 3x the size of the other four popular vote losing margins combined (more)
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Trump is the fifth POTUS to lose the popular vote. So what happened to the other 4? Only one was re-elected:
-Adams (JQ) lost in 1828 to his 1824 rival Jackson
-Hayes chose not to run (1880)
-Harrison (Benjamin) lost to Cleveland (1888)
-Bush W narrowly beat Kerry (2004)
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Of those prior four presidents who lost the popular vote, most, with the exception of John Quincy Adams, have fared poorly history-wise. A 2017 @CSPAN survey of historians ranks them:
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