It was a decisive electoral vote victory, but 2.3 million votes difference works out as 49.8% of the popular vote to 48.3% of the popular vote.

I believe around 230,000 votes across Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would have made the difference.

I think that counts as eking, personally.

Winning by 1.6% is not a massive victory. It's actually a smaller margin than Hillary won the popular vote by in 2016 (despite losing the electoral vote).