But the win doesn’t mark Trump’s third election victory. It's his second, given that he won against Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and then lost to President Joe Biden in 2020. Trump baselessly claimed victory on election night in 2020 and has ...

Although some commenters on the post were incredulous, others blamed alleged election fraud for the shift in 2020. " Are you joking? They had to deliver the votes by horse and buggy," one user wrote. "It always takes longer to cheat the vote than it does to count the vote," another user commented.

As the votes for the 2024 presidential election are counted, here's a look back at how the states voted in the 2020 election.

Biden's win came as voter turnout rose 7% over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. adult citizens casting a ballot in the 2020 election, the Washington, D.C.-headquartered center said. Biden's popular vote differential was also better than fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 two-point advantage, according to the fact tank.

Donald Trump won the 2024 election, notching a slew of swing-state victories.Republicans won back the Senate, while the House remains undecided and may take days to call.Investors rallied around the "Trump trade" for the rest of the week.

It's the first time Trump has topped an opponent in the popular vote​, and only the second time since 1988 that any Republican has done so.

Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

Former President Donald Trumps 2024 vote tally has already surpassed his total from the 2020 election, marking a potential record-breaking comeback as the final counts trickle in from key battleground states.