The result isn't unexpected in the solidly Democrat Ocean State, which hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan won in 1984.

Trump’s Electoral College highpoint — the 312 he won in 2024 — pales by comparison, and also lags far below the peaks for Bill Clinton in 1996 (379) and Barack Obama in 2012 (370).

With the primaries, the conventions, general election, Electoral College and the Official Congressional Vote Count on Jan.6, the race for the White House is more like a pentathlon than a marathon.

When I first saw the Electoral College map after the election last month, with 31 states in bright red and only 19 states in blue, I thought, "This is what America feels like to me." Donald Trump ...

In fact, it was the largest electoral college win since 1936. Reagan’s GOP believed in a strong defense, or as Reagan commonly cited, a policy of “peace through strength.” ...

Both candidates hoped to reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes to earn a majority in the college. Trump’s 312 is better than Joe Biden's 306 and beats both Republican wins by George W Bush.

Reagan won by 9.7 percent, carrying 44 states and earning 489 electoral votes, and Republicans flipped control of the Senate for the first time since 1954.

But Clinton did run away with the Electoral College vote, winning 370 electoral votes in 1992 and 379 in 1996. Even those strong victories are dwarfed by Ronald Reagan’s 1984 win, a true landslide.

In 2020, he lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to President Biden, who received about 81 million votes (51%) nationwide, compared to Trump's 74 million (47%).

Reagan won with 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49, alongside a popular vote tally of 43.9 million (50.8 percent) to Carter's 35.4 million (41 percent).