2016 ELECTION/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. I heard that so much for a year — I kept saying, maybe I shouldn’t be running… But there was a way to 306.
But wasn’t that an exciting one? Places that nobody entered — Donald Trump has won the state of Michigan. They go, what? Donald Trump has won the state of Wisconsin. They came out of the blue, and we didn’t even need them. And we love those two states — because we won the state of Pennsylvania, and we won Ohio, and Iowa, and North Carolina, and South Carolina, and Florida, and so many others. We ran the coast. And if you don’t run it, you can’t win. Huge disadvantage, Electoral College. It’s very, very tough. They say almost impossible for a Republican to win.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at 2017 North America’s Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 4, 2017