Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 49.8% of the national popular vote — compared with 48.3% for Vice President Kamala Harris — and 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. In the 20 presidential elections since the end of World War II, Trump had the fourth-narrowest margin in the popular vote and seventh-narrowest in the Electoral College.

And yet this objective fact about the 2024 election — that it was a narrow result in a closely divided nation — does not seem to matter, all that much, to the nation’s politics.

Two views of the 2024 presidential results predominate in our political discourse.

The first, held by the president , his allies and his administration, is that the election was an overwhelming landslide — a historic landslide — the most devastating victory a can

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