Whereas the 2024 presidential election was among the many closest in current reminiscence — with President-elect Donald Trump forward by about 3 share factors over Vice President Kamala Harris — Trump’s vote share grew in a various array of areas throughout the nation and throughout completely different demographic teams.
It is the primary time in Trump’s three campaigns for the White Home that he is topped his opponent within the common vote, and solely the second time since 1988 that any Republican has accomplished so. In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gained virtually 66 million votes (48%), in comparison with Trump’s practically 63 million (46%), however Trump gained the Electoral Faculty. In 2020, he misplaced each the Electoral Faculty and the favored vote to President Biden, who obtained about 81 million votes (51%) nationwide, in comparison with Trump’s 74 million (47%).
Trump’s victory in 2024 was pushed by enhancements in help in a overwhelming majority of counties nationwide — greater than 9 in 10 — in keeping with information from counties the place at the very least 95% of votes have been counted as of Friday. Trump’s enhancements crossed areas, and included city, suburban and rural beneficial properties.
Trump even fared higher in most locations the place a majority of voters most popular Harris, like New Jersey, or throughout the Hudson River, in his hometown of New York Metropolis.
The Backyard State, a longtime Democratic stronghold, swung markedly in Trump’s favor. As an illustration, the most recent information present Trump with a slim 3% lead in suburban Passaic County, the place he acquired simply 41% of the vote in 2020.
In New York Metropolis, the place Trump grew up and spent most of his life earlier than getting into politics, he did not simply surpass his two earlier outcomes; his roughly 30% vote share topped each Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan, 40 years in the past.
Practically 2,000 miles away, Maverick County, Texas, a majority Latino border county that Biden carried simply in 2020, swung much more, about 28 factors. Trump in 2024 outperformed Biden’s 2020 exhibiting, and Harris fared worse than Trump did in 2020.
CBS Information exit polls from the final two elections confirmed Trump gaining amongst each women and men this yr. In 2020, Trump gained males by a hair, 49% to 48%, however in 2024, his marketing campaign’s efforts to woo males seem to have paid off: his help from males grew to 55%.
In 2020, Trump managed to win 43% of girls voters. In 2024, regardless of Democrats’ deal with ladies voters and abortion entry, which boosted them within the midterm election races, Trump nonetheless elevated his numbers with ladies, notching up that determine two ticks, to 45%.
Trump made beneficial properties amongst core teams inside the conventional Republican coalition, reminiscent of evangelical voters. However he additionally elevated his help amongst teams Democrats have relied on, together with younger voters and Latino voters, reminiscent of these in Maverick County and one other former Democratic stronghold, Florida’s Miami-Dade, which Mr. Biden gained in 2020, with 53%. This yr, Trump carried the county with about 55% of the vote, changing into the primary Republican to win there since 1988.
The chart under exhibits the change in help for Trump in demographic teams between 2020 and 2024.
