On the eve of the election, a caravan of vehicles of all sizes paraded through the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, and disappeared under piles of flags bearing the image of Donald Trump. Motto of the meeting: “Too big to handle” : “too big to be faked.” This was the order from the General Staff to the former president’s supporters throughout the country: vote en masse, so that any attempt to question the results by the Democrats would be nipped in the bud.
Successful business. Donald Trump gathered more votes for his name than in his two previous candidacies, washing away the affront of the 2020 defeat. On Wednesday he added Michigan to his conquest of what was going to be the Blue Wall, the “blue wall” that defends the positions by Kamala Harris (Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania). A victory so broad that he managed to win to a large extent not only the vote of the voters, by crossing the fateful threshold of 270 with 295 votes, but also the popular vote, with 4.7 million. votes ahead of his rival. No Republican has won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
Examination of the results by region and category of voters does not show an upheaval or a realignment, but rather an accentuation of the balance of power recorded in the last elections throughout the country and in almost all categories of voters. Red (Republican) states are increasingly red. The swing states have turned red: if his lead in Nevada and Arizona is confirmed, Trump is on track to win all seven key states. The blue states have become less blue, due in particular to the defection of a part of the young vote and the Latino vote.
These phenomena allowed Donald Trump to win the popular vote. An analysis of the site. political It also shows that turnout was higher in red counties. The tactic of “Too big to handle” paid. Even in “safe” counties, Republicans flocked to the polls.
Withdrawal of the Democrats in their strongholds
Overall, however, turnout was lower than in 2020, a record year due to the widespread use of mail-in voting during the pandemic. Donald Trump had received about 74.2 million votes. On November 5 it amounted to 72.6 million, about 2 million less, but 9 million. more than in 2016 (62 million). With some 67.9 million votes, Kamala Harris received 13.4 million fewer votes than Joe Biden in 2020 (81.3 million), a drop that raises numerous questions in the Democratic base and its mobilization, although some incriminate the tactics of “elimination of votes” (restrictive measures to exclude voters) in red states.
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