It also means the popular vote will soon come into play, but what exactly is the popular vote and does it matter? In short, ...

For over two centuries, voters have been influenced and possibly even motivated by campaign songs and pop culture either to vote for a particular candidate or simply to get out and vote in the ...

He received 77.3 million popular votes, a number that ranks among the largest vote totals ever. The presidential candidate to receive the most votes ever is still Joe Biden, with 81.2 million in 2020.

His margin of victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the national popular vote — 1.5 percentage points — is the smallest of any president who secured a popular-vote win since Richard M.

In 2016, Trump lost the popular-vote margin to Hillary Clinton by about three million votes—though he won the Electoral College comfortably. The Wall Street Journal English Edition ...