• OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The people who didn’t participate are roughly those who never do.

    2020:

    Biden - 81.2 million

    Trump - 74.2 million

    2024:

    Harris: 75 million

    Trump: 77.3 million

    Even if we assume Trump took all 3 million extra votes from Biden’s 2020 voters, there are still 3 million Biden 2020 voters who didn’t turn out for Harris. They cared enough to vote against Trump the 2nd time, just not this time.

    Anyway, you are right in the sense that those few million likely wouldn’t have tipped the election anyway. You are dead wrong that they don’t matter. Completely counterproductive lesson to take from the election