2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I don’t know if you saw, but if you watch the Democrats now, the anger — the anger and hatred, and they’re trying to figure out where did all these people came that voted for Donald Trump? Remember they said — because the Electoral College is a very, very hard, they say, almost impossible for a Republican to win. The odds are stacked.
And they would say there’s no way to 270 — you need 270 — there’s no way to 270… But there was a way to 306…
We had tremendous — we had tremendous support. Oh, we did. We had tremendous support.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at 2017 North America’s Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 4, 2017