{"id":2814,"date":"2024-11-08T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2024-11-08T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:57:35","slug":"trump-first-candidate-in-40-years-to-sweep-key-2024-swing-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Trump first candidate in 40 years to sweep key 2024 swing states<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-08-at-7.56.27-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-08-at-7.56.27-AM.png 590w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-08-at-7.56.27-AM-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us-news\/2024-presidential-election-results-map-live-updates-from-across-the-us\/\">pulled off an electoral map feat<\/a>\u00a0no candidate has achieved in four decades: capturing all seven key swing states that have become pivotal to securing a White House victory.<\/p>\n<p>Trump prevailed in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina \u2014 the first presidential candidate of either party to do so since Ronald Reagan\u2019s historic 1984 reelection landslide victory against Walter Mondale, in which the Republican won 49 states.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us-news\/2024-presidential-election-swing-states-results-live-map\/\">seven pivotal swing states\u00a0<\/a>have vacillated wildly since 2016, when Trump defeated then-opponent Hillary Clinton in all but Nevada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_adr_abp_container_4\" class=\"_adr_abp_container\" data-section=\"d5bce8756701e67a7cad028e80f2ad24\" data-packetid=\"00000001-49a3390d-f2dc-4c0f-b13f-873392719bad\" data-render-time=\"1731070567616\" data-refresh-time=\"1731070568688\"><\/div>\n<p>Then in the 2020 election, President Joe Biden managed to turn six out of the seven states back to blue, winning all of them except North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>After it was projected Trump would win North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania \u2014 the latter considered the ultimate must-win for both candidates this cycle \u2014 the then-presumptive president-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/watch-donald-trumps-victory-speech-in-the-2024-election\/\">took to the airwaves to claim victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/07\/us-news\/trump-first-candidate-in-40-years-to-sweep-key-2024-swing-states\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/07\/us-news\/trump-first-candidate-in-40-years-to-sweep-key-2024-swing-states\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u00a0pulled off an electoral map feat\u00a0no candidate has achieved in four decades: capturing all seven key swing states that have become pivotal to securing a White House victory. 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