https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/828446496471269376
At 9:03 p.m. with the Atlanta Falcons sitting a big lead in the Super Bowl, Hillary Clinton’s former spox Brian Fallon decided to make a joke, riffing off of a pro-Trump talking point that Trump won the popular vote if you excluded California and New York:
The Patriots are winning if you exclude California and New York.
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) February 6, 2017
Oops.
Falcons beat a team from Green Bay to get here but you wouldn't know where that is. https://t.co/2LkUK4YLsJ
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2017
New England even won the popular vote
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017
To put the Patriots comeback in perspective:
New England's odds heading into the Ryan fumble: 249:1, per ESPN.
Trump's odds were 40x better heading into Election Night.— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017
And it wasn’t just Fallon who had egg on his face. Check out the data folks and their predictions as the game proceeded:
99.6% for ATL at one point, per ESPN. IDK much about these football models, but that's much crazier than Trump/Clinton pic.twitter.com/eOdAwwOPp8
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017
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In case you forgot… #SuperBowl #SuperBowlSunday pic.twitter.com/IrfJLAlV6G
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 6, 2017
And this is hilarious, too. USA Today did an entire article on the #TrumpJinx:
#TrumpJinx https://t.co/Ipyyfle90w
— For The Win (@ForTheWin) February 6, 2017
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