President-elect Donald Trump’s narrow victory of just more than 10,000 votes in Michigan was certified by the state’s Board of Canvassers on Monday, officially making him the first Republican White House hopeful to win there since former President George H.W. Bush in 1988.
With the victory, Trump’s Electoral College total formally surpassed the 300 mark, a feat for a GOP White House hopeful also last achieved by the 41st president.
The Associated Press reports:
Green party candidate Jill Stein has until Wednesday to request a recount in Michigan, as she is expected to do. Trump has the right to object to the request, and the process could stretch well into December, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Short of an overturned result, Trump will have fully followed through on the Rust Belt strategy many electoral analysts said was his most realistic path to victory. He won 74 combined electoral votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—all blue states in the last two presidential elections, comprising the area of the country most responsible for his Electoral College triumph.
