Republican Donald Trump defeated Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris in a remarkable political comeback for the convicted felon and twice-impeached former president. He won all seven swing states decisively, fueled by support from white voters.
A majority of white voters cast their ballot for Trump according to AP VoteCast, a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, unchanged from the 2020 election which he lost to President Joe Biden.
Chronicle photographers documented Election Day around Chicago and the day after Trump’s historic win.
Trump lost the presidential vote in Illinois, but did better in Chicago than any previous Republican candidate since H.W. Bush. Trump won 22% of the vote in Chicago, according to election results posted by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
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