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Wed Dec 28, 2016, 10:14 PM Dec 2016

Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Popular Vote by Nearly 2.9 Million

Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Popular Vote by Nearly 2.9 Million

by Alana Abramson at ABC

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-officially-wins-popular-vote-29-million/story?id=44354341

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According to vote tallies from The Associated Press, Clinton amassed 65,844,610 votes across all 50 states and Washington D.C., 48.2 percent of all votes cast. Trump received 62,979,636 votes, 46.1 percent of all votes cast.

The Associated Press announced today that all votes had officially been certified.

Clinton had 2,864,974 votes more than Trump, the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate in U.S. history, according to the AP.

Trump won the presidency by clinching 304 electoral votes, well over the minimum 270 needed. Clinton won 227 electoral votes.




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