Hillary Clinton received more votes on Election Day than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history who lost the election, according to a final election count released Wednesday evening.
The Democrat took home 65,844,954 votes to President-elect Trump’s 62,979,879, giving Clinton a 2.1 percent advantage over the billionaire businessman. To put that into perspective, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote by more than 10 percent in 1824, but lost the election to John Quincy Adams through the House of Representatives.
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