If Trump ultimately wins the national popular vote – a moral victory that won't ultimately sway the election outcome – he'd be the first Republican presidential candidate to do so in two decades.
The lowest Electoral College score for any candidate was four years prior to that, when former Vice President Walter Mondale won just one state and Washington, D.C., for a total of 13 votes, against ...
The uncertainty stretched even longer after the 2000 election, when five weeks elapsed before the Supreme Court settled the contested election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.