How did 10 million fewer Democrat voters, only +500k to Republicans, but have basically the same high voter turnout?
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It's looking like a slightly lower turnout, but also there's 5+ million votes still to count. So Trump will gain votes even though turnout is down. Pretty bad times, never been more disappointed in the electorate.
Cool but pop vote means nothing in presidential election. The missing Dems were all from states that don't matter thanks to the electoral college. Harris did nearly as well, or even better than 2020 Biden in the key swing states, and of the ones she didn't do better than 2020 Biden she could have done just as well and still been beaten by 2024 Trump, who got more votes in those swing states.
What are you talking about? She lost
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Michigan
I'm what world is that doing better? She lost the popular vote and the electorial vote. She did not do better than Biden.
Since this entire original post is about the overall popular vote, when I said "did better" I meant in regard to number of votes in those states. But Trump did even better. My point is that the "missing Dem votes" illustrated from the OP were almost all from states other than the key swing states, and didn't ultimately matter due to the electoral college. In the key swing states, Harris got nearly as many or in some cases even more than Biden in 2020. Trump just got even more.
Michigan is the sole swing state in which Harris would have defeated Trump if she had gotten Biden's turnout in 2020. In all other key swing states, even with Biden's 2020 turnout, Harris would have lost to Trump's 2024 turnout. She still would have lost the electoral college.
Wisconsin
Biden 2020: 1.63 million
Harris 2024: 1.667 million
Trump 2024: 1.697 million
Michigan
Biden 2020: 2.804 million
Harris 2024: 2.72 million
Trump 2024: 2.802 million
Georgia
Biden 2020: 2.473 million
Harris 2024: 2.543 million
Trump 2024: 2.66 million
Pennsylvania
Biden 2020: 3.459 million
Harris 2024: 3.352 million
Trump 2024: 3.491 million
Tbf, theyre still counting some ballots, although minimal
seems more lopsided than it should
Damn, Trump's cult secretly genocided 10 million liberals in 4 years!