Election Day 2024: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris News and Results

There were only five of them US Presidents in history
who were elected without a popular vote, most recently, of course, Donald Trump in 2016. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the key battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan to win the electoral votes, despite winning 2.8 million fewer votes nationwide than his Democratic rival.

Here are the other four presidents who followed a similar, somewhat unconventional path to victory:

John Quincy Adams: In 1824, Adams lost the popular and electoral votes to Andrew Jackson, a member of the same party and one of four candidates vying for the presidency. Jackson received a majority of the electoral votes, but not an absolute majority. The top three candidates were then sent to House of Representatives
for the final vote, which resulted in Adams being chosen over Jackson.

Rutherford B. Hayes: Like Adams, Hayes’s 1876 victory over Samuel Tilden, a Democrat, was decided by Congress after Republicans disputed the results of three state elections. The dispute prompted Congress to create a bipartisan commission that ultimately ruled in favor of Hayes and his constituents. Hayes won with 185 electoral votes.

Benjamin Harrison: In 1888, Harrison lost popular vote for a democratic president,
Grover Cleveland polled by approximately 90,000 votes but received the Electoral College votes with a strong majority of 233–168. Cleveland then ran against him again and won in 1893, making him the only US president to serve two consecutive terms – pending, of course, the results of the 2024 election.

George Bush: In 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Democratic Vice President Al Gore by 500,000 votes, but secured the presidency in a famously hot election that hinged on the state of Florida, accusations of “hanging the chaps” in the punch. ballots and, ultimately, a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court ruled in Bush’s favor, and he ultimately beat Gore by a 271 to 266 margin.