Most Americans are familiar with the summary data from the 2024 presidential election. In his third race for the White House, Donald Trump won the Electoral College 312-226, and the popular vote by 1.5 percentage points.

Republicans held on to their control of the House of Representatives (220-215) and regained a majority in the Senate (53-47).

The close splits in Congress and the popular vote suggest a nation evenly divided, supported by a general feeling of entrenched red-and-blue, us-and-them national bisection.

Trump (and his personality) is commonly blamed for this, and the Democratic leadership in the last two campaigns obsessed over him. Trump's name was mentioned in the Democratic platform 150 times in 2024 and 120 times in 2020, after appearing only 32 times in 2016.

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