Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.

Summary

Trump’s popular vote share has fallen below 50% to 49.94%, with Kamala Harris at 48.26%, narrowing his margin of victory.

Trump’s share of the popular vote is lower than Biden’s in 2020 (51.3%), Obama’s in 2012 (51.1%) and 2008 (52.9%), George W. Bush’s in 2004 (50.7%), George H.W. Bush’s in 1988 (53.2%), Reagan’s in 1984 (58.8%) and 1980 (50.7%), and Carter’s in 1976 (50.1%).

The 2024 election results highlight Trump’s narrow victory and the need for Democrats to address their mistakes and build a diverse working-class coalition.

The numbers also give Democrats a reason to push back on Trump’s mandate claims, noting most Americans did not vote for him.

  • mercano@lemmy.world
    715·
    12 hours ago

    The fact that a majority of voters did not want Trump to win makes me simultaneously feel happy (that I’m not surrounded by idiots) and more depressed (that the Electoral College has screwed us AGAIN!)

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      891·
      12 hours ago

      It’s a lack of majority not a lack of plurality. Harris is still trailing Trump by 3m votes or so (and 1.6%), Trump is just not above 50% after further votes have been counted. So this isn’t an electoral college steal

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        286·
        12 hours ago

        Yeah, but even if Kamala wins the popular vote, this is going to be the closest a republican has gotten in…

        Decades?

        Maybe longer?

        But the DNC is going to latch onto this and try to claim if they had moved just a little more right they’d have won.

        Regardless of what happens, the DNC will always say the answer is moving to the right.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          33·
          11 hours ago

          Regardless of what happens, the DNC will always say the answer is moving to the right.

          This isn’t borne out by trending or statements. What kind of crystal ball are you smoking?

          • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
            61·
            11 hours ago

            Two examples: ran on being humane to migrants and continued title 42 three years into the Biden term and proposed a draconian new immigration law.

            Ran on reforming the police, flooded them with money.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
      21·
      9 hours ago

      FPTP should get FAR more attention as the culprit for this situation. Sure, the electoral college caused Kamala to lose (or whatever) but if we had a true democracy, there wouldn’t be only two possible parties to choose from.

      FPTP

      • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah does it really make that much of a difference in terms of “being surrounded by idiots” whether 51% of the people around you are idiots or 49%? Sure, I’d prefer the 49% scenario, especially if there’s an election happening, but you’re still surrounded by idiots.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 hours ago

          The fact that Trump could get elected at all, let alone twice, is proof that there’s too many idiots to want to participate in normal society

    • testfactor@lemmy.world
      15·
      12 hours ago

      He still had more of the popular vote than Harris, it was just they were both less than 50% due to 3rd party votes. So neither had a “majority” of the vote.

      So he still would have won, even under a purely popular vote based system.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Another thing it means is that if we had ranked choice voting, those 3rd party votes would be the deciding factor in who won the presidency.