Donald Trump may achieve something that hasn't happened for 132 years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : RealClearPolling shows Trump ahead by 0.3 percentage points.
55% : Pollster Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin projects an even wider margin, with Trump at a 53.8 percent probability of winning to Harris' 45.8 percent.
54% : Several forecasters project that Trump will win the election.
47% : As of Friday afternoon, 538's forecast gave Trump a 52 percent chance of winning to Harris' 48 percent.
43% : The Hill's forecast says there's a 54 percent chance of Trump winning the presidency.
30% : Trump is the first defeated president to run for office again since the late 19th century.
23% : Trump, the Republican presidential nominee for a third time -- first in 2016, then in 2020 and now in 2024 -- is in an extraordinarily tight race for the White House against Vice President Kamala Harris.
18% : In 2020, Trump, the incumbent, lost the presidential election to President Joe Biden.
17% : To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 Electoral College votes, which doesn't always align with the national popular vote, as was more recently the case in 2016, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016.

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