Hillary Clinton Now Beating Donald Trump by More Than 2.5 Million Votes

Still More Votes to Be Counted

Hillary Clinton has expanded her lead in the popular vote over Donald Trump as votes continue to be counted. The Democratic nominee is now beating the president-elect by more than 2.5 million votes.

With just 50 days until Donald Trump becomes President Donald Trump, the former secretary of state has 65,152,112 votes, to her opponent’s 62,625,928 – that’s a difference of 2,526,184 votes, according to the Cook Political Report’s accounting.

Clinton is approaching the number of votes President Barack Obama won re-election in 2012 with. 

The New York Times notes Clinton’s votes are now “five times Al Gore’s lead over George W. Bush in 2000. At 1.9 percentage points, her lead is now larger than those of 10 presidents, and it is approaching Jimmy Carter’s margin over Gerald Ford in 1976.”

Donald Trump won the White House with 306 Electoral College votes, to Clinton’s 232.

The AP, which has a slightly different set of numbers, shows that Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who is currently working to have several states votes recounted, took 1,420,351 votes. 

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, took 4,442,771 votes. 

 

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