With 96% of the vote in, Trump has, according to the Associated Press, 49.97% to Vice President Harris’ 48.36%, or 76.9 million votes to 74.4 million.
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Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 days agothis is a nitpick, but Trump actually closely lost the popular vote once all sources were fully accounted for.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Your source says Trump won the popular vote.
Harris got 74.46m votes and Trump got 76.94m votes in the graph.
And the US Election Atlas claims 77.1m for Trump and 74.7m Harris.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This was actually the next link down, but the one I went to post retracted since I read it. So yes, my post was in correct.
UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And close or not, Trump did win the popular vote. (and no, I didn’t vote for him.)
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, the place i had originally read it now shows a retraction based on a bad report, replied a little further down