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The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 119th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act and Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, on January 6, 2025, was held as the final step that confirmed President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election over incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris.
New York's legislature deadlocked over the method of choosing electors and abstained; [84] North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the Constitution. [ 85 ] By 1800, Virginia and Rhode Island voted at large; Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina voted popularly by district; and eleven states voted by state legislature.
If neither candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, or in the event of a 269-269 tie, the Electoral College hands the deciding vote over to Congress. In 1824, when four candidates ran for ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Still, it would take very little for Trump to flip Georgia (he lost by just under 12,000 votes in 2020) and Arizona (the margin was just over 10,000 last time).
Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again", made Americans feel like the country was in a time of loss, willing to take a risk on voting for a candidate without political experience. [54] Trump was convincing with his anti-everything rhetoric, and his message reached the electorate with the help of the media.
Over 65 million Americans have voted as of Friday morning, which is 40% of the 2020 turnout, however, there is no real data from those votes that will determine who will win the race.
Former Trump Administration official Chris Krebs, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the election, said in a December 2020 interview that, "All votes in the United States of America are counted in the United States of America." [26]