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Former President Donald Trump has unofficially garnered enough electoral votes to return to office after dominating winning crucial battleground states Tuesday night.
“We’ve been through so much together and today you showed up really in record numbers and I can’t thank you enough,” Trump told his supporters early Wednesday morning from his home state of Florida. “This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of the country.”
It’s no surprise that former President Donald Trump carried Alabama on Election Day, even outpacing his 2020 numbers in the deep red state.
With nearly 97 percent of votes reported early Wednesday morning, Trump had won the race for Alabama’s nine Electoral College votes with an easy 31-point margin over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I am thrilled to see our country rediscover tonight what my fellow Alabamians never forgot—our love for the US of A and what made us great to begin with!” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall posted on X. “Alabama will now have a partner, not an antagonist, back in the White House! Let’s go!”
“The people have spoken!” Gov. Kay Ivey tweeted. “A Trump/Vance administration is a win for every American, and I could not be more optimistic for our future. Now, let’s all come together to make America great again.”
Trump defeated Joe Biden in the 2020 race in Alabama 62.2 to 36.7 percent of the vote. Tuesday, Trump had captured 65 percent of the vote compared to Harris’ 34 percent.
The final numbers are on track for Trump to outpace his 2020 vote total, already hitting his 2020 figure of 1.141 million voters with 3 percent of votes still left to be reported. Harris meanwhile lagged about 100,000 votes behind Biden’s total voter turnout of 849,264.
That trend was evident all across the country Tuesday night.
It appears Republicans flipped Marengo County in the race—Marengo tilted 50.4 percent toward Biden in 2020 but 51.7 percent toward Trump in 2024 with 99 percent of votes reported.
The other 12 counties that voted in favor of Biden in 2020 also went blue for Harris Tuesday: Jefferson, Montgomery, Sumter, Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Wilcox, Lowndes, Bullock, Macon and Russell counties.
Even in those counties, Trump made percentage point gains as Harris appeared to inspire lower turnout by Democrat voters overall.
Trump locked in Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning to secure his 270 electoral votes and his second term in office.
