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JUST IN: Trump Makes History After Latest Ballot Drop

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November 18, 2024

A national tally of the popular vote has put President-elect Donald Trump at the top of the Republican pile of all who have ever run.

Beyond winning the popular vote, a historic feat no Republican candidate has achieved in over two decades, President-elect Trump secured more than 76 million of Americans’ votes, making him by far the most successful GOP candidate for president. Votes from late-counting states like Arizona and California continue to roll in almost two weeks after Election Day. As of Monday morning, the president-elect has garnered 76,433,589 votes, second only to President Joe Biden’s 2020 election with more than 81 million votes.

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The former and future president already made history that same year when he earned 74,223,975 votes, the third-highest total and still ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s 73,759,465 votes this year. By comparison, former President Barack Obama achieved 69,498,516 votes in 2008 and 65,915,795 in 2012, both years when he earned 365 and 332 electoral votes, respectively.

Fox News reported on the vote total as well as Trump’s margin of victory in some of the most closely contested states, many of which he lost four years ago. In addition to winning all seven of the swing states, Trump nearly toppled Harris in Virginia and New Jersey where she squeaked by with about 51% of the vote.

The majority of Trump’s biggest gains came in urban areas which in most cases did not vote for him overall. He won all seven swing states thanks in part to gains in places like Maricopa County, Arizona, anchored by Phoenix and home to more than 6 in 10 votes across the state. New votes from Hispanic Arizonans carried the day; after losing the demographic to Biden by 24 points, Trump slashed the deficit against Harris to 10, according to NBC News. In Atlanta, Georgia, Harris’s momentum stalled in the nine counties where she didn’t garner large enough margins to win the state. Counties like Fulton, DeKalb, or Gwinnett — the latter with more than 1 million nonwhite voters — all moved significantly toward Trump. After narrowly losing Georgia in 2020, this time around Trump improved his position in 153 of the state’s 159 counties.

Those results as well as similar ones in Michigan’s Arab-American communities, Latino residents in Pennsylvania, and Native Americans in the Southwest all help illustrate Trump’s historic popular vote total. His coalition has included all-time-high numbers of Black and Latino men who have been accused of “racism” and “misogyny” by far-left critics unable to understand why they would support the Republican given swirling controversies about his past statements. In the end, however, none stacked up against the $7 price of butter which even Joe Scarborough found unfathomable.