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    19 days ago

    “12 million fewer people who voted for Harris”?!?

    Um, no… Trump won by (vote counts as of today Dec 3) 2,424,153 votes. I don’t know where you get the idea that Harris lost by 12 million! At first I thought maybe it was a typo but you’ve repeated that number in other posts. Don’t just make shit up if you want your arguments to be taken seriously.

    https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqnemxwvx/president/

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        19 days ago

        OK, so if you are comparing those numbers, the answer is 81.2m for Biden in 2020 - 74.7m for Harris in 2024, which is 6.5 million votes fewer, not 12 million.

        You were citing only her votes counted in the first 24 hours or so compared to Biden’s total after all votes counted.

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            19 days ago

            If you looked at the argument they’re having, it’s about how much of a difference leftists made in the election by refusing to vote for her, so the number is relevant for the points they were making. OTOH my point was that, it doesn’t matter how many votes each candidate got in 2020 compared to 2024. What mattered was how many votes each one got in 2024, where the difference was 2.4 million (1.6%).