President-elect Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years. Social media users have wrongly claimed that Trump lost the popular vote, but they are confusing the popular vote with a majority of votes.

Republican Donald Trump’s support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency. In his defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, Trump won a bigger percentage of the vote in each one of the 50 states,

In his defeat of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump won a bigger percentage of the vote in each one of the 50 states, and Washington, D.C., than he did four years ago.