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Last updated: July 4, 2025
Presidential Election Results: Trump Wins
Donald J. Trump won the presidency for a second time, becoming the second person in history to serve two non-consecutive terms. By improving his performance in both blue and red states and successfully capturing key swing states, he secured the necessary Electoral College votes. His significant gains in traditionally Democratic states like California and New York allowed him to become the first Republican in 20 years to win the national popular vote.
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Kamala Harris
226
Donald J. Trump
312
270
TO WIN
75,017,613 votes (48.32%)
77,302,580 votes (49.80%)
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Results by state
States are pre-grouped according to the Cook Political Report.
Dem.
Rep.
Win
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Win
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Harris expected to win easily
State
Margin
CA
D+20
CO
D+11
CT
D+15
DE
D+15
HI
D+23
IL
D+11
ME-1
D+22
MD
D+29
MA
D+25
NJ
D+6
NY
D+13
OR
D+14
RI
D+14
VT
D+32
WA
D+18
DC
D+86
Harris expected to win narrowly
State
Margin
ME
D+7
MN
D+4
NE-2
D+5
NH
D+3
NM
D+6
VA
D+6
Most competitive states
State
Margin
AZ
R+6
GA
R+2
MI
R+1.4
NV
R+3
NC
R+3
PA
R+1.7
WI
R+0.86
Trump expected to win narrowly
State
Margin
FL
R+13
IA
R+13
ME-2
R+10
TX
R+14
Trump expected to win easily
State
Margin
AL
R+31
AK
R+13
AR
R+31
ID
R+37
IN
R+19
KS
R+16
KY
R+31
LA
R+22
MS
R+23
MO
R+18
MT
R+20
NE
R+21
NE-1
R+13
NE-3
R+54
ND
R+37
OH
R+11
OK
R+34
SC
R+18
SD
R+29
TN
R+30
UT
R+22
WV
R+42
WY
R+46
Background
In 2020, incumbent president Donald Trump sought re-election for a second term in the White House. However, he was defeated by Democratic challenger Joe Biden. U.S. senator Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party was chosen as his running mate and was elected as Biden's vice president.
Trump became the first president to be impeached twice, and the first to run for office again after impeachment. Due to Trump being acquitted in both impeachment cases, he was eligible to run for a third time in 2024.
Election interference
Many state courts and officials, including the Colorado Supreme Court, a state Circuit Court in Illinois, and the Secretary of State of Maine, ruled that Trump was ineligible to hold office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This was due to the role that he played in the January 6 Capitol attack, and therefore attempted to disqualify Trump from appearing on the ballot. However, these attempts were unsuccessful. On March 4, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state cannot determine eligibility for a national election under Section 3. The court then proceeded to rule that only Congress possesses the authority to disqualify candidates or to pass legislation that enables courts to do so, as per Trump v. Anderson.
Trump's false claims of election interference
During the 2020 election, Donald Trump made false claims of voter fraud and denied the validity of the election results. In July of 2024, it was reported by The New York Times that "the Republican Party and its conservative allies are engaged in an unprecedented legal campaign targeting the American voting system", by restricting voting for partisan advantage ahead of Election Day and preparing to mount "legally dubious" challenges on the process of certification should Trump lose.
Leading up to the 2024 general election, the Republican Party made several claims that illegal immigrants were taking part in the voting process in order to make the election seem like it was rigged should Trump lose again. These claims were an attempt to further the election denial movement. Trump and other Republicans stated that they would not be accepting the results of the election if it was deemed unfair.
Trump's previous comments and rhetoric raised some concerns over the state of democracy in the United States. Some of these comments included "terminating" the Constitution to reverse his election loss, his claim that he would only be a dictator on "day one" of his presidency and not afterwards, his promise to use the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, his plan to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military as a form of law enforcement in cities and states that voted primarily Democratic, attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, baseless predictions of voter fraud in the 2024 presidential election as well as his celebration and embracing of the January 6 Capitol attack.
Foreign interference
Prior to the election, U.S. officials, both current and former stated that foreign interference was likely in the 2024 election. Three major factors listed were America's deepening domestic political crises, the collapse of controversial attempts to control political speech on social media, and generative AI. The countries that were suspected of mounting influence and interference operations on the election were China, Russia, and Iran. American intelligence officials perceived this as an effort by authoritarian nations to weaken global support for democracy overall.
China
China was accused of interference via its propaganda and disinformation campaigns that were tied to Spamoflauge operations. The country was identified as not focusing on a specific political candidate, but rather honing in on issues that were important to the Chinese government such as Taiwan. By April of 2024, China had created several accounts on social media in support of Donald Trump that were promoting his conspiracy theories, increasing the domestic divide and repeatedly attacking Biden prior to November.
Russia
Similar to the Chinese government, Russia was spreading disinformation to sully Biden and the Democrats, boost candidates supporting isolationism (Trump), and undercut support for aid to Ukraine as well as NATO. The United States publicly accused Russia of interfering with the election process. American intelligence agencies concluded that Russia was supporting Trump in the election, due to him being more critical about U.S. aid to Ukraine.
Iran
Iran was attempting to interfere with the election through companies acting as a front for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They attempted to hack the Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns. Iran launched propaganda campaigns to tip the election scales against Trump.
Voter roll purges
Many Republican-led administrations removed voters from their states' voter rolls leading up to the 2024 election. Critics of this argued that it violated the National Voter Registration Act. 160,000 inactive or infrequent voters were removed from Ohio's voter rolls in July of 2024. Both the Common Cause and the League of Women Voters threatened lawsuits due to the purge.
Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia signed an executive order in August 2024 removing 6,303 voters suspected of being non-citizens from Virginia's voter rolls. In response to this, the Department of Justice sued Virginia's Board of Elections and the Virginia commission of elections, alleging that it violated the National Voter Registration Act. They also found that a lot of the apparent non-citizens purged were actually citizens. District judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ruled that the removal was illegal, and subsequently ordered the state to stop purging voter rolls and to restore t