WASHINGTON (News First) – A few days after the presidential election, and Donald Trump should be feeling good right now.
President-elect Donald Trump swept every single battleground state in the 2024 election. On election night, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin put Trump over the needed 270 electoral college votes to clinch the White House. Around 2 a.m. that night, Trump gave an acceptance speech from his watch party in Florida. Overnight from November 6th into the 7th, Arizona was officially called for Donald Trump. Earlier in the day, Nevada and Michigan also went red. This includes the usually reliably blue Detroit metro area. As he did in 2016, the now president-elect decimated the so-called blue wall that are considered the swing states, but usually land in the Democratic column. Those states are Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. A surprise Iowa poll by the stalwart Des Moines Register in the weekend before the election proved to be an anomaly, as Iowa also stayed solidly red. With a sweep of every single swing state, the three in the blue wall, as well as North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, Donald Trump wins 312 electoral college votes, the most of any Republican since 1988.
