Where did the Votes go?

That's a difference of 12 million votes, not 21 million. Trump more or less duplicated his 2020 numbers, so the drop was on Harris' side. A quarter of Black men and half of Latino men voted for Trump, along with a surprising number of Gen Z men.

The dead vote wasn't allowed this time.

Good source, I was looking for this info anyway!

https://www.newsweek.com/voter-turnout-count-claims-map-election-1981645

"In 2020, 66.38 percent of the eligible voting population turned out, with 159,738,337 ballots counted across the country, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. There were 240,628,443 eligible voters that year.

As of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, fewer people had turned out than four years ago—64.54 percent of the 245,741,673 eligible had cast ballots for a total of 158,549,000."

Your math is clearly wrong as it isn't 21 million...

When this stupid argument started, there were still a ton of votes being counted, even if they knew whom won the state, they didn't know the exact number of popular votes.

As you can see in the graph below, when this started, even Trump had less votes in 2024 than he did in 2020.

But that's not correct, as they keep counting, Trump got more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020.

2020
81.28m for Biden
74.22m for Trump

2024 (so far, and they might not be fully done counting yet)
74.25m for Trump
70.35 for Harris

So instead of your 21 million, it's actually less than 11 million.

And really, one would need to go into more details of which states (or if it's about equality among all) the that voted less, as a lot of states are basically known which way the state is going. So less people might show up.

It's really only the battle ground states that matter big time.

And they still say the election wasn't stolen 🤔

Voter intimidation, response to propaganda that turned some to Trump, laziness, death, employee intimidation, persons that may have voted for Biden but make more than 400,000 may have decided to go to Trump in particular if they don’t care about society. Other reasons also I am sure.

Those votes were sitting at home, or literally doing anything other than voting. There being x amount of turnout last election means nothing

The sad truth is that most Americans don't vote. 2020 was a special case because of covid. That's why people voted at record levels, they desperately wanted a change. But when the pandemic ended, most people went back to tuning out.

If you want to know just how unengaged Americans are, consider this...

https://futurism.com/the-byte/joe-biden-drop-out-google-trends-election

Biden dropped out of the race, and a ton of people didn't find out until three months later. So the good news is that the Trump Cult hasn't grown. The bad news is that the Democrats have totally failed at messaging.

A lot of people didn't vote.

There are other candidates. In fact despite endorsing Trump, Kennedy was still on the ballot as well as others. Then there's always the write in vote. Which could be anyone even if they are not real people.

Mickey mouse was once a popular write in vote.

Compare the votes to elections preceeding 2020

I would imagine that a lot of people were discouraged by the toxicity of the debate and not being especially enthused by the calibre of either candidate.

Deaths and people who didn't vote for her.

5 million that’s a lot of people!

To the better candidate

Back to the graveyard

I was thinking the same thing. Those 12 million sat out the election apparently