The table shows the US presidential election results: &n

The table shows the US presidential election results:

Popular Vote Electoral Vote

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Clint Smith 69,984,625 267

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Don Kruger 65,853,516 271

Who will be the next president? and why?

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Don Kruger will be the next US president as he got more electoral vote.

When individuals cast ballots in the general election, they are choosing electors and telling them which candidate they think the elector should vote for in the Electoral College. The "national popular vote" is the sum of all the votes cast in the general election, nationwide.

In the U.S. presidential election system, instead of the nationwide popular vote determining the outcome of the election, the president of the United States is determined by votes cast by electors of the Electoral College.

There have been five United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote including the 1824 election, which was the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded. Losing the popular vote means securing less of the national popular vote than the person who received either a majority or a plurality of the vote.

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