Trump’s Georgia ‘record vote’ backed by presidential totals since 1976

Donald Trump’s 2024 Georgia vote total supports the “record vote” boast he made ahead of his latest campaign rally. It is the highest presidential candidate tally in a historical series covering 1976–2024, but not a record winning margin.

The president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday 24 October 2026: “I Won Georgia in a Record Vote.” He was promoting a rally for Mike Collins’s US Senate campaign and Rick Jackson’s bid for governor. Atlanta News First reported that the event was planned for Perry that evening.

The post did not specify an election year or define the record. In Dalton on 16 October, however, Trump had said his victory two years earlier brought “more votes than any presidential candidate or any political candidate in the history of Georgia”, according to Roll Call’s Factba.se transcript. That wording points to 2024 and total votes, rather than percentages.

At Dalton, he also urged supporters to “pretend I'm on the ballot” for the 3 November midterm elections. Collins is challenging Democratic senator Jon Ossoff, while Jackson faces former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Georgia’s certified 2024 result gave Trump 2,663,117 votes and Kamala Harris 2,548,017 — a lead of 115,100. Trump received 50.72% of the 5,250,905 presidential votes listed by the Federal Election Commission, giving him a winning margin of 2.19 percentage points.

His tally was 189,484 above Joe Biden’s 2,473,633 in 2020, the previous high in Electoral Vote Map’s 1976–2024 vote-count series. Biden won Georgia that year by 11,779 votes. Trump’s separate claim in Dalton that he had also won that election was false; the 24 October post makes no specific claim about 2020.

Trump’s lead was larger in 2016, when he beat Hillary Clinton by 211,141 votes. George W. Bush also won a higher share of Georgia’s vote in 2004: 57.97%. Trump did not explicitly claim a record margin or percentage in his latest post.

Georgia counted about 5% more presidential votes in 2024 than in 2020, while Trump’s own tally grew by about 8%. Harris also received 74,384 more votes than Biden had four years earlier, yet lost the state. Trump’s record in the historical series is in votes received, not his lead over his opponent.