Trump vs Harris – Who is the next US President?

After a lengthy couple of months featuring plenty of twists and turns in the race to become the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump has come out victorious yet again to take on his second term as President following his first between 2016 and 2020.

The former President succeeded in putting the election to bed with 294 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’ 223 with three results still to go. This goes to show that despite the polling showing this as an extremely even contest, Trump was underestimated once again.

Trump succeeded in picking up a crucial win in Pennsylvania which has ruptured the Blue Wall once again. The state was a prime target for both Trump and Harris in their campaigns, who spent a combined $1.2 billion on advertising and rallies which, given its 19 electoral votes, it played a huge part in Trump’s monumental victory.

We take a look further at the breakdown of the results below.

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Donald Trump 296 – 223 Kamala Harris (with three results to go)

Donald Trump’s performance is nothing short of remarkable given what the polls said before the nation went to vote, and in the afternoon of the 6th of November, his win in Wisconsin tipped his tally over the critical threshold of 270 votes, which cemented the former President to another term in the White House.

The exit polls – from a sample size of 22,509 respondents – show some interesting results regarding Trump’s performances against Harris among certain demographics. Firstly, Trump was far more popular with male voters, collecting 55% of votes from men, with Harris only receiving 42%. The opposite is true for female voters who sided with Harris (53%) with just 45% voting for Trump.

Regarding race, white voters sided more with Trump than they did with Harris – 57% to 41% – but Harris completely dominated within the black community, receiving 85% of votes to Trump’s 13%. Interestingly, despite Harris being more popular among Hispanic voters with 52%, Trump’s percentage rose by 10% among this group from 2020 to 46%.

As mentioned before, the key reason for Trump’s success was the gains he made in four key states which sided with Joe Biden and the Democrats in 2020. Notably Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, which cumulatively provide 60 electoral votes, a monumental amount to win from just four states.

Harris didn’t perform as well as people would have thought, and maybe hoped, having taken the reins over from former Democrat candidate Joe Biden with just 100 days before the election. It was the failure to reassemble those who’d won Biden the election back in 2020 which saw her downfall this year.

Harris came under criticism for focusing too much on Trump in her three-month campaign instead of spotlighting her own ideas and what she’d bring to the table had she been elected, and this ultimately led to voters rejecting the Democrats and Trump coming out victorious.

The Senate

Not only do the electoral votes count, but also the election in both Houses of Congress. The Republicans are projected to have gained a majority here, too, having received 52 of the 100 available seats, therefore reaching the 51 seats needed to control the Senate.