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Commentary: Majority desires are irrelevant to our government

Both the elections of 2016 and 2018 clearly indicate that U.S. voters lack Donald Trump’s obsessive craving for a wall.

In campaigning for the 2016 election, Trump promised voters Mexico would pay for the wall. Though it should be easy to sell a free project, Trump received almost 3 million fewer votes than the most investigated and vilified woman of human history. In fact, Trump received a smaller percent of the popular vote than Mitt Romney did when running against the likable and scandal-free President Obama.

The election of 2018 was even a more clear rebuke to Trump by voters than 2016.