The extraordinary vote margin in favor of Clinton leaves Trump as the elected president most thoroughly rejected by American voters since Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876.
Hayes, a Republican, lost the popular vote by 3.0 points to Democrat Samuel Tilden. But Hayes prevailed in the Electoral College after a lengthy legal dispute.


Donald Trump (l) will become president despite suffering a significant rejection by American voters. 

At the same time, Clinton’s vote total appears poised to climb past Obama’s 65,915,795 votes won in the 2012 presidential election, which currently stands as the second-highest total in American history. But Clinton, whose total on Tuesday evening stood at 65,503,605 according to The Cook Political Report Popular Vote Tracker, needs to find just 412,191 votes to top Obama’s total and become the second-highest vote-getter in U.S. history — and the highest vote-getter who did not actually assume the presidency.