The future president’s speeches about an “unprecedented election victory” are not true when the vote count is completed.
– America has given us an unprecedented and powerful power of attorney, Donald Trump declared to his supporters on November 6, when it became clear that he would win the presidential election.
At that time, the predictions predicted that he would get well over 50 percent of the votes cast.
Trump was so excited about his victory that he called it unique. Trump said he had achieved “a political victory the likes of which the country has never seen, nothing like this.”
A good couple of weeks have now passed since these moods and the final result of the elections has begun to be confirmed little by little.
According to it, Trump received slightly less than half of all the votes cast in the presidential election.
A historically narrow win
The counting of votes is still in progress in many states, and the results have not been officially confirmed everywhere.
What is certain is that Trump, representing the Republicans, has received approximately 2.5 million more votes than his opponent, the Democratic Party Terrible Harris.
It is also clear that the unique victory that Trump declared on election night has withered into a fairly standard American election victory with the completion of the vote count.
After the vote count According to The Cook Political Report website Trump eventually received 49.87 percent of all votes cast. News channel CNN’s reported that Trump took 49.9 percent of the vote.
In a historical comparison, such an election victory actually turns out to be comparatively meager.
Trump got a smaller percentage of the votes cast than Joe Biden in 2020 (51.3 percent).
He also fared worse than, among others, the following election winners: Obama 2012 (51.1 percent), Obama 2008 (52.9), George W. Bush 2004 (50.7), George HW Bush 1988 (53.2), Ronald Reagan 1984 (58.8), Reagan 1980 (50.7) and Jimmy Carter 1976 (50.1).
Trump was quite far behind as well Lyndon “Landslide” Johnson from the election results from 1964, when LBJ won as much as 61.1 percent of the vote.
American The Nation magazine fell from the beginning of the weekthat if Trump’s vote share remains unchanged, only five presidents in US history have won the election with a smaller percentage of the votes cast.
The newspaper reminds us that comparing vote shares in elections is problematic.
Sometimes in elections, there are third candidates from outside the ruling parties, who significantly eat away at the votes of one of the candidates, or possibly both – although this was not the case in the 2024 elections.