Days before the Nov. 5 election, pollsters predicted the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was tight. According to pollsters, early votes were going to the Democrats, and polls predicted a razor’s edge victory by Harris.
The pollsters could not have been more wrong. As of Saturday, Trump had just been named the winner in the swing state of Arizona, giving him 312 electoral college votes, to Harris’ 226. Trump needed 270 to win.
In history, that’s not a landslide, but close. In 1964, Democrat Lyndon Johnson won 486 electoral votes, while Barry Goldwater, the Republican, got just 52.
Trump has done better than Joe Biden did in 2020, when Biden (apparently) won 206 electoral votes. Somehow in 2020, Biden was awarded more than 81 million votes — the most of any presidential candidate in U.S. history.
Trump won all seven battleground states, and is the first Republican in years to also win the popular vote across America.
