It’s three weeks after the election debacle of 2024, and Thanksgiving Day is here. They are still counting some of the votes, but as I write on Nov. 27, 2024, the latest count shows that Trump won 76,883,434 votes, Harris received 74,406,431, and the rest of the voters—somewhere around 1.6% of those who showed up to vote—were divided in roughly equal amounts among the Green Party candidate, the Libertarian Party candidate, RFK Jr., and Micky Mouse.
Trump’s 2024 Plurality Among Those Who Voted
The total popular vote, as of this writing, stands at 153,847,281. If you calculate to the nearest 1/100 of a percent, Trump received 49.97% of those who voted, as of today’s count. (If you round up to the nearest tenth of a percent, or to the nearest percent, you can say Trump won 50% of the vote—a figure that one often sees.)
A “majority” means 50% plus 1. Here, a “majority” of those who voted would be a number equal to or greater than 76,923,641. Trump did not get quite that many votes.
Trump’s Support as a Percent of All Registered Voters
About 186.5 million Americans are currently registered to vote. Trump received about 41.2% of the votes of all those who are currently registered to vote (including those who voted and those who did not vote in 2024.)
Trump’s Support as a Percent of All Americans Who are Eligible to Vote
Of those who would be entitled to register to vote, some have actually registered, and some have not. As just noted, total voters actually registered are about 186.5 million. Total eligible voters—the currently registered plus the currently unregistered—are estimated to be around 244 million.
Trump received the votes of about 31.5% of all those Americans who are eligible to vote.
Facing MAGA 