It seems like every time we elect a new president, there is debate about whether the winner was given a “mandate” by the voters. Supposedly this means they didn’t just elect him (or her), but did so in such a way as to confirm that they want him to aggressively pursue the implementation of his policies.
What constitutes a mandate? No one really seems sure. One possibility, though, is that you’ve got a mandate if the voters also gave your party a majority in the House and Senate – and in Donald Trump’s case, they did.