Posted on 11/10/2024 5:37:45 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Projections of the 2024 election show President-elect Donald Trump to have the highest count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential candidate.
As of Sunday morning, Donald Trump secured 74.56 million popular votes, surpassing his previous record of 74.22 million from the 2020 election, according to Reuters.
Currently, this total places him ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70.8 million votes.
However, a significant number of votes remain uncounted, particularly in California, where only about 75% of votes have been tabulated.
Several other states, including Alaska, Arizona, Maryland, Oregon, and Utah, still have outstanding votes to be counted. Approximately 5 million votes are estimated to be uncounted.
Republicans have not won the popular vote in a presidential election since 2004, when President George W. Bush garnered 62 million votes. In comparison, Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide victory in 1984—a time when the U.S. population was about 100 million people smaller than it is now.
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Ask voters? Apparently 70k votes in NV voted for Trump but not some of down ballot races which helped dems win them
Ask counters? Why the extreme slow counting that repeatedly sees Republican candidates lose their lead and ultimately their race in many late called races?
Likely won’t happen, but would be great if Trump surpassed Joe’s 2020 bumped up total.
Decreases in total vote since 1824 (records sketchy before then — I think in some states, electors weren’t chosen by popular vote):
1864 (southern states didn’t participate): 4.7M down to 4.0M
1904 (14.0M down to 13.5M)
1944 (49.9M down to 48.0M)
1988 (92.7M down to 91.6M)
1996 (104.4 down to 96.3M)
2012 (131.5 down to 129.2)
2024 (158.6 down to 148.7)
It’s a rather large increase from 1988 to 1992, and quite a decrease down to 1996.
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