The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching 2020's historic levels.

Summary

The 2024 presidential election saw record-high turnout nearing 2020 levels, with over 152 million ballots cast.

Donald Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, defying conventional wisdom that high turnout benefits Democrats.

Key swing states like Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania had increased turnout, with Trump outperforming Kamala Harris in battlegrounds despite her strong voter mobilization.

The GOP’s focus on early and mail voting, as well as targeting infrequent voters, proved effective, signaling a shift in Republican turnout strategies in the Trump era.

  • Kernal64English
    24·
    1 month ago

    The people that always stay home weren’t gonna come out. They never do. 2020 is said to have had historic levels of turnout and it had 2/3rds of eligible voters coming out to vote. I wouldn’t count on that last third who always sits out to suddenly realize they’re screwing themselves and everyone else. I still don’t know where the 10 million number is coming from. Who’s projections and statistics? Would it be the same people who projected that despite a close race, Harris would be the likely winner? I’m not sure they’re all that credible at the moment. I think people shifted right and I think that sucks a lot. I wish I had a solution, but I don’t. There were any number of good reasons to come out and vote for Harris, or at least against FatPutin, but here we are.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
      83·
      1 month ago

      Harris had 73 million votes. Biden had 81 million. The population and consequently the number of democratic voters has also increased by several million.

      If you do the very basic arithmetic, there are at least 10 million democratic voters who didn’t turn out in 2024. Hope that helps.

      • Kernal64English
        13·
        1 month ago

        You know, I wasn’t rude to you, so there isn’t any reason for your condescending tone.

        • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          29 days ago

          You have been rude since your first comment. You have expressed confusion at why you were wrong while simultaneously expressing large amounts of condescension towards anyone who provides you an alternate explanation.