After Super Tuesday, most of the media is talking about the Democrats.
Yet it was Trump who really made big news. Voters turned out for the president in record numbers.
The Hill reports:
Trump’s Super Tuesday results: Broad appeal beyond a united GOP
While some in the media spent much of Super Tuesday reveling in Joe Biden’s awakening from political death, they entirely missed the untold story of Super Tuesday: President Donald Trump’s record-breaking vote counts and turnout.
Despite being an uncontested incumbent, President Trump managed to break several turnout and vote-count records in blue states and key swing states.
In Vermont and Minnesota, Trump’s vote totals beat every past incumbent’s total in the last four decades. In Maine, the president’s vote total bested every primary candidate’s total since before President Ronald Reagan. In Massachusetts, the story was similar, with Trump aggregating a higher vote total than past incumbent Republicans since before Reagan.
And in deeply blue California, with 82 percent of precincts reporting, President Trump collected nearly 1.4 million votes.
Turnout numbers similarly showcased the enthusiasm of Republican voters. In Colorado, for example, Republican turnout for Trump on Tuesday was greater than the past three Republican primaries combined.
GOP spokeswoman Ronna McDaniel talked about this on Twitter:
We are seeing proof of the huge enthusiasm for @realDonaldTrump in several states:
In NC, POTUS has already blown past the # of votes he got in 2016.
In OK, POTUS is on pace to received 4 TIMES the # of votes of the last two incumbent presidents.
#KeepAmericaGreat— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 4, 2020
In AR, POTUS is on pace to receive DOUBLE the # of votes of the last two incumbent presidents.
In MN, with just two-thirds of the vote in, POTUS has already received nearly 4 TIMES the # of votes as he did in the 2016 caucus.#WINNING
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 4, 2020
MORE:
Essex County, VT went for Obama in '08 and '12, but swung for @realDonaldTrump in '16 (aka “a Pivot County.") POTUS just received more votes there than all the Democrat primary candidates got in 2008.
Update on NC: POTUS has received 150% MORE votes than he did in '16!
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 4, 2020
Amazing.
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