Priebus: Trump’s win biggest since Reagan

Published November 26, 2016 4:17pm ET



President-elect Donald Trump’s Electoral College crushing of long-time presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton was fueled by the most counties won since Ronald Reagan’s demolishing victory in 1984, and the most votes ever for a Republican.

In a memo summing up the election from outgoing Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, tapped as Trump’s chief of staff, the numbers pointed to a shading of traditional blue sections of the nation to GOP red.

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