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.
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.
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