Two of the localities Murren said have not yet submitted their voter histories — Philadelphia and Allegheny — are reliable Democratic strongholds. Philadelphia has reliably voted Democratic in presidential elections for decades, with the city itself voting81% in favor of Joe Bidenthis ye...
In 1824, four presidential candidates split the vote, and no candidate won an electoral majority. John Quincy Adams won the election in the House, even though Andrew Jackson had won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes. And in 1837, Martin Van Buren won a majority of electoral vot...
His opponent that year, Hillary Clinton, won over 2.8 million more votes than Trump nationwide, but she lost enough key states to be defeated in the Electoral College, 306 to 232. In 2020, Trump lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College to Joe Biden. The electoral vote was ...
tipping him over the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the presidency. Shortly afterwards, Nevada awarded its 6 votes to Biden as well, bringing his total to 290. Many states saw a nail-bitingly close race, with major news networks unable to call them in favor of either candidat...
How Many Presidents Were Impeached? Impeachment is considered a check on the president’s power when US Congress votes to put the president (or other American officials) on trial. The process was written into the US Constitution, stating that if the President commits a serious offense, he co...
In this scenario, Trump would flip the Sun Belt trio of Arizona, Georgia and Nevada as well as the Frost Belt duo of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Adding these five states to his 2020 map would give Trump 297 electoral votes to Biden's 241, surpassing the 270 electoral votes needed to ...
Lisa Blunt Rochester did them on behalf of Biden. The speeches were followed by the roll call, during which delegations from 57 states and territories cast their votes for each candidate based on the results of the presidential primaries. Sanders ended the roll call with 1,151 ...
But calling his win a landslide, as so many Trump allies do, is laughably false. Trump received slightly more than 77.3 million popular votes — just 1.5 percentage points more than Harris. It is one of the more anemic victories in a half-century and weak even in these hyper-partisan tim...
Biden and Trump will each hold events in Georgia on Saturday, a week after they did simultaneous U.S.-Mexico border trips in Texas. That’s a reflection of how closely their campaigns will bump up against each other but also how they will work for votes differently. Biden ...
Joe Biden “You’re not running against Joe Biden. You’re running against me,” Harris told Trump. Eli Stokols09/10/2024, 10:44pm ETBefore the debate, many asked how Kamala Harris would distance herself from Joe Biden. Donald Trump made a few derisive references ...