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Donald Trump won the most popular votes of a Republican
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Donald Trump won the most popular votes of a Republican

He earned it big time.

President-elect Donald Trump got the most popular votes of all Republican presidential hopeful ever, according to predictions for the 2024 election.

As of Sunday morning, Trump had 74,650,000 popular votes, eclipsing his previous record of 74,224,000 votes in the 2020 election. for the Associated Press.

Right now, that puts the president-elect ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70.9 million votes — though there’s still a large portion of uncounted votes, including in California, which has about 66 percent of the votes tabulated.

Other states, including Alaska, Arizona, Maryland, Oregon and Utah still have outstanding votes. There are approximately 5 million votes estimated to be outstanding.

The Republican president-elect made a stunning political comeback last week. AFP via Getty Images
Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, but insisted the fight is not over. Getty Images

Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in a presidential contest since 2004 — when President George W. Bush won 62 million votes.

Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide election in 1984 – when the country had 100 million fewer people than it does now.

President Biden still has the highest gross popular vote count of any presidential candidate in US history, with 81.3 million votes cast for him in 2020.

Trump, 78, swept all seven battleground states and won the Electoral College 312 to 226. That’s his biggest win since 2012, when incumbent President Barack Obama won 332 to 206.

For context, Trump’s 2016 victory was 304 to 227. Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232.

Republicans have also recaptured the Senate and are within striking distance of holding the House of Representatives.

The soon-to-be 47th commander-in-chief is the second president in US history to win a non-consecutive second term after Glover Cleveland.

Trump is now working on personalizing his second administration. On Saturday, he announced that he would not bring back former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, nor former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Harris’ supporters wept as she gave her concession speech at Howard University last week. Getty Images

These two individuals have faced objections from MAGA’s grassroots because of their hard-line foreign policy views and past criticism of Trump.

The president-elect is scheduled to meet with Biden at the White House next Wednesday.