by a whisker

But there is no longer any denying that Trump could also win, either comfortably or, as he likes to say, by a whisker.

Moldova has opened talks on joining the European Union, and on the same day of the first round Moldovans voted by a whisker to back a change to the constitution embracing the commitment to join the EU.

“I don’t acknowledge that at all. I said that sarcastically. You know that. It was said oh, we lost by a whisker. That was said sarcastically.”

This was the second time he had used the phrase within a week, telling an audience at a Moms for Liberty gathering a few days earlier that Biden “beat us by a whisker.”

“The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement.