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Trump ran for reelection eight years later, winning the election and the popular vote. [12] [13] As of the 2024 election, no incumbent president has won re-election without winning the popular vote, and no president has won two terms in office without winning the popular vote at least once.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
In addition, most of the time, the winner as determined by the electoral college also has received the largest part of the national popular vote. There have been four exceptions: 1876 , 1888 , 2000 , and 2016 , in which the Electoral College winner's portion of the popular vote was surpassed by an opponent.
Five times in U.S. history, candidates have lost the popular vote but won the presidency — most recently in 2016. Could Donald Trump be the first to do it twice? —1824: Andrew Jackson won ...
A viral post shared on Threads claims President-elect Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2% in the 2024 election. View on Threads Verdict: False The claim is false. Multiple sources, including ...
Who won the popular vote in 2024? As of 1:51 p.m. ET on Nov. 6, Trump had 71,790,131 popular votes and Harris had 66,985,924. Trump currently leads Harris by approximately 4.8 million votes.
The idea gained traction amongst scholars after George W. Bush won the presidential election but lost the popular vote in 2000, the first time the winner of the presidency had lost the popular vote since 1888. Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact.
According to CJR’s analysis, nearly 1,700 Americans have claimed winning tickets of $600 or more at least 50 times in the last seven years, including the country’s most frequent winner, a 79-year-old man from Massachusetts named Clarance W. Jones, who has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets for prizes exceeding $18 million.