President-elect Trump has previously sealed a pleasant lot in the Electoral College. However, he is also on track to get the popular voting, which he failed to do in his first successful strategy for the White House. Trump will receive more votes in the national vote than his defeated rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the most recent count as of Thursday night, making him the second Republican to get the popular vote in 20 years.
Though seats were still being counted in some states, Trump had received more than 72.6 million seats, against approximately 68 million for Harris, a distance of around 4.6 million votes.
Former President George W. Bush won election against John Kerry in 2004 and was the last Republican presidential candidate to receive more seats than his rival. The next Republican before Bush to do so was his parents, then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, who defeated Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Before Election Day, experts agreed that Harris would win more votes total while Trump and Harris may lose out to each other in the Electoral College.
