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The Electoral College system and its role in determining the presidency.
won the by a narrow margin — roughly 1.5 percentage points — receiving about 77.2–77.3 million votes (≈49.8%) to ’s roughly 75.0 million (≈48.3%), according to near-final tallies compiled by multiple ...
The shorthand “red states vs blue states” denotes U.S. states that reliably vote Republican (red) or Democratic (blue) in presidential and many statewide contests, a convention that crystallized after...
Congress is the only federal actor with the constitutional authority to set the date for choosing presidential electors and therefore to change the day of the presidential election; the President alon...
Donald J. Trump did not win the 2020 U.S. presidential election; Joseph R. Biden Jr. was the certified winner, receiving 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232 and winning the national popular vot...
Donald J. Trump received approximately 77,266,801 popular votes in the November 2024 presidential election, about 49.9% of the nationwide total, defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris who received...
Congress already sets the nationwide dates for federal elections by statute: 2 U.S.C. § 7 fixes the day for congressional elections and the 19th‑century statute codified at 3 U.S.C. § 1 fixes the day ...