Let’s Do Some Math
Warning, there will be a lot of numbers flying by in the next couple of minutes–but I promise, I’ve already done the math.
Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral vote in this past Tuesday’s general election.
Trump will wind up with 312 electoral college votes, far more than the 270 required for a majority. For context, Trump’s 312 this time compares with the 304 he got in 2016. Joe Biden was credited with 306 in 2020. In short, that’s a lot of red on the map.
Trump will also have the popular vote majority, scoring 50.7 percent to Kamala Harris’ 47.4 percent. That translates to 73.4 million votes for Trump and 69.1 million votes for Harris.
Four years ago, Trump scored 74.2 million votes while Joe Biden was credited with 81.2 million. That means Trump won this time with about 1 million fewer votes than four years ago.
The total number of votes for the Republican and Democrat candidates this time was 142.5 million. Four years ago, that number was 155.4 million. That means almost 13 million fewer votes were cast this time.
So as I read it, we had record numbers of early voters, plus long lines at the polls on election day…but 13 million fewer votes were cast this time…with the winning candidate having 8 million fewer votes than the declared winner four years ago.
I said I would do the math. But you can put 2 and 2 together.
