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I was warned by a friend that this would happen, that some people who might feel a need to defend their vote in the recent presidential election would quietly begin to revise history. In this case I refer to a public forum letter from a reader ("Moral misgivings aside, the choice was about issues," Nov. 26) which asserts that a "majority of the country" voted for Donald Trump. Let me set the record straight: As of Nov. 25, Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump in the popular vote by over 2 million votes nationwide. According to National Public Radio, this constitutes "the widest gap in raw vote in the history of the handful of times when the popular vote went the opposite direction as the Electoral College."

The writer may have actually believed what they wrote. That said, I hope that we can at least acknowledge this one fundamental truth.

Lawson LeGate

Salt Lake City