The popular vote says one thing—but the Electoral College can say another. Here’s why that matters more than ever.

Despite Donald Trump getting 77.3 million votes of Americans last month, 2.3 million more than Kamala Harris, he won't win the presidential election until today, when the Electoral College meets ...

If Trump is serious about prioritizing the popular vote and discarding the Electoral College, Democrats have plenty of reasons to endorse the overhaul. Dec. 10, 2024, 11:18 AM EST By Steve Benen ...

In comments, the user explained that since Trump did not receive at least 50% of all votes cast, he had lost the popular vote. But this is a misunderstanding of how the popular vote is measured.

According to forecasts, Trump will secure 312 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 needed to win. His victory is further solidified by a popular vote margin of approximately 2.5 million more than ...

CONCORD, N.H. – Presidential electors are gathering at state capitals across the country on Tuesday to cast their electoral votes in the 2024 election, a key step in formalizing President-elect ...

The 2000 election was decided by just 0.51 percentage points with then-Vice President Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing in the Electoral College to George W. Bush.

The only other time this has happened this century was in 2000, when Democrat Al Gore came up short in the Electoral College but won the popular vote by 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush, the ...

On election night, Americans across the country were focused on one number: 270. It’s a well-known – and hotly-contentious – fact that in American politics, presidential candidates must win 270 ...

The 2000 election was decided by just 0.51 percentage points with then-Vice President Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing in the Electoral College to George W. Bush.

Though Trump overwhelmingly won the electoral college vote, his tally in the popular vote is hardly a landslide. In the last 75 years, only three other presidents had popular-vote margins that ...