New Delhi:
Donald Trump has change into the primary Republican in 20 years to safe the favored vote within the US presidential elections. The previous president has reclaimed the White Home, probably turning into the primary Republican to safe the favored vote since George W Bush in 2004. Within the 2004 US Presidential elections, Bush received 62,040,610 votes and 286 electoral votes in comparison with Democratic nominee John Kerry who secured 59,028,444 votes and 251 electoral votes.
In keeping with election voter knowledge of the previous 20 years, Barack Obama achieved the most important widespread vote victory with 69.5 million votes (52.9 per cent) and a considerable 365 electoral votes in 2008. His second time period in 2012, whereas nonetheless a decisive victory, noticed a slight decline in widespread vote proportion to 51.1 per cent and in electoral votes to 332.
Contrastingly, the 2016 election noticed an uncommon final result with Donald Trump profitable the presidency with 304 electoral votes however solely 46.1 per cent of the favored vote, whereas Hillary Clinton received 48.2 per cent of the favored vote – a 2.1 per cent margin increased than Trump’s and but inadequate for victory.
In 2020, Joe Biden secured each a transparent widespread and electoral majority, profitable 51.3 per cent of the favored vote and 306 electoral votes. As compared, Trump received 74,223,975 votes and his electoral votes stood at 232.
Trump gained early leads in essential swing states, together with North Carolina and Georgia. However the greatest prize of all was profitable the essential battleground state of Pennsylvania. With 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania victory places Trump nearer to the White Home. These wins, mixed along with his sturdy displaying in historically Republican strongholds like Texas and Florida, gave Trump a important benefit within the electoral vote rely.
As outcomes streamed in, Vice President Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign discovered itself scrambling to regain momentum. Regardless of sturdy performances in Democratic strongholds, her path to victory appeared to slender considerably. Harris’s marketing campaign headquarters in Washington, DC suggested supporters that the clearest path to victory would now hinge on the so-called “Blue Wall” states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. With Pennsylvania now gone to Trump, all eyes are on the opposite two states.
Election evening noticed dramatically completely different scenes in Washington DC and at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. At Howard College, a traditionally Black faculty within the nation’s capital, pleasure rapidly waned as outcomes started displaying Trump’s mounting lead. Harris supporters, a lot of whom anticipated her to ship a landmark victory as the primary Black and South Asian girl within the White Home, expressed concern and nervousness. Trump supporters at a Palm Seaside viewing occasion alternatively celebrated early victories.
If confirmed, Trump’s victory would make him the oldest president on the time of inauguration. His return to the White Home would additionally make him the second president ever to serve non-consecutive phrases, a feat solely beforehand completed by Grover Cleveland within the nineteenth century.