Changed thread title to discuss broader elections results...namely, can Trump hold the absolute popular vote majority...
As of now he is at 74,675,486 votes and 50.3%. per Reuters and Edison Research.
The AP has it at 74,838,166 votes and 50.4%.
If AP is to be believed, a Trump lead growing with the vote count is at least a little surprising on the surface given that the bulk of the remaining vote to be counted is in CA, a state with only 72% reporting and healthy 58.5/38.6% vote split between Harris and Trump, respectively. In essence, there is nearly 5 million more votes to be counted CA alone. Extrapolating CA's voting trend, there should be about 2.8M more votes for Harris out of CA and about 1.9M for Trump. If the total national vote count comes in around 148.49M as the numbers imply, a tenth of a percentage point swing is only about 150,000 votes. Again, using AP's figures, Trumps absolute majority rests only on about 600,00 votes.
Still, there are a lot of states that Trump won handily that are still counting too...so there is quite a bit more vote to pick up for Trump than just what is in CA.
