The numbers for Trump’s win keep setting records.
Trump clinches biggest popular vote count by a Republican EVER as president-elect’s historic 2024 election win grows
He won it bigly.
President-elect Donald Trump has nabbed the highest raw count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential hopeful ever, according to projections of the 2024 election.
As of Sunday morning, Trump clinched 74,650,000 popular votes, eclipsing his prior record of 74,224,000 votes in the 2020 election, per the Associated Press.
At the moment, that puts the incoming president ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70.9 million votes — though there is still a large swath of votes uncounted, including in California which has an estimated 66% of the vote tabulated.
Other states, including Alaska, Arizona, Maryland, Oregon and Utah still have outstanding votes. Roughly 5 million votes are estimated to be left outstanding.
Since I’m feeling a little pugnacious, I personally think that Trump won the most votes ever for either a Republican OR a Democrat.
That chart was created before the counting was done. But still …
Since I can’t confirm where those numbers came from, I got the voting results from our presidential elections going back to 2000, then created the chart below, which has the most up-to-date numbers from the 2024 election. Right now, Harris has 70.9 million votes. Biden supposedly got 81.2 million votes in the 2020 race.
It begs the question: Where are those 10.3 million Democrat voters who were so enthusiastic for Biden?
They clearly didn’t swing to Trump, who (so far) has improved his vote total over 2020 by less than half a million.
When I questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, pointing to Biden’s basement strategy, cognitive decline and that he couldn’t draw a crowd in the few campaign appearances he did hold, I was told in no uncertain terms in my personal social media interactions that it wasn’t so much that voters were for Biden as much as it was that people were voting against Trump.
That reasoning is even worse now. Trump is still Trump.
There are still five million votes to be counted, and even if we were generous and gave Harris half, she still only gets to 73.4 million.
So where are all these people who didn’t vote for Biden, but voted against Trump?
