Donald Trump, the president-elect, won’t reach 50% but will still win the popular vote with a large margin.

Three weeks after Election Day the results of the ballots are still being counted. Analysts describe the Republican Party’s win as decisive, but not overwhelming.

As of Tuesday morning Mr. Trump was sitting on 77.6 million votes, compared to 74.5 for Kamala Harris. This translates to Mr. Trump receiving 49.9% and Ms. Harris 48.3% of the votes. The rest of the votes went to Green Party, Libertarian Party, and independent candidates.

Ms. Harris is likely to close this gap even more given that the majority of votes are still on the liberal West Coast.

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The 312-226 victory of Mr. Trump in the Electoral College is likely to remain unaltered, barring a few disloyal electors.

The results contradict Republicans’ claims that they have a huge mandate, but Mr. Trump has the most decisive victory for a Republican in 36 years.

Kyle Kondik, analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that it was a tight election compared to historical standards. However, this is not true for recent standards. This election is most similar to 2004 when a Republican was the winner of the popular vote. However, neither this nor that was a sweeping win.

Mr. Trump’s vote total in 2020 was 74.2 millions, but Ms. Harris’ fall from President Biden’s 81.3 million votes is more significant.

Early results and exit polls suggest that Mr. Trump performed better across demographic and geographic divides. He gained significant ground among the Hispanic electorate, and performed better in counties that had a large Asian American population.

Mr. Trump reversed the gender gap by winning more men than Ms. Harris did women. The prognosticators thought suburban women would bring him down.

Most strikingly, he was able to take on Democratic strongholds.

He won Texas with a margin of nearly 14 percentages points, and Florida with 13. These were greater margins than the 11-point win by Ms. Harris in New York, a deep-blue state. New Jersey, a blue-collar state, had a 6-point advantage for Ms. Harris. This was almost the same as Arizona, a battleground where Mr. Trump only won by 5.5 percentage points.

Mr. Trump has improved his performance in almost 90% of counties across the country.

William Galston is an analyst with the Brookings Institution. He said that Trump’s win was narrow, but wide-ranging, and showed signs of a breakthrough in non-White voters.

Trump is enjoying a honeymoon in America, no matter how narrow his victory.

Emerson College’s poll now shows him with a 54% approval rate, an increase of 6 points from the pre-election Emerson poll. YouGov/CBS News’ survey conducted over the weekend revealed a surprising optimism regarding Mr. Trump’s upcoming tenure, with 59% of respondents approving his handling of the election aftermath.

Ses electoral performance helped the Republican Party to gain control of Congress.

The Senate elections have been decided, with Republicans gaining seats in West Virginia (Ohio), Montana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The Senate Democratic Caucus will have 47 seats compared to their 53. Democrats currently have a 51-49 lead.

The Republicans retained control of both the House and Senate, although the size of their majorities is still in question. There are three House races that are too close to call.

In Iowa, the race between Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller Meeks and Democrat Christina Bohannan went to a recount. Ms. Miller -Meeks was in the lead by approximately 800 votes from more than 400,000 ballots cast.

California is still counting votes in the race between Rep. John Duarte and Democrat Adam Gray. Duarte had a 200 vote lead on Gray with over 200,000 votes. Derek Tran was a Democrat, who had a 600-vote advantage over Republican Rep. Michelle Steel, who received more than 300,000.

If all results hold, Republicans will have a 221 to 114 advantage in the House of Representatives next year. This is roughly the same as they have had during most of this session.