Just How Close Was the 2024 Presidential Election?

Sure. Delude yourself. @luckranger71

I used that wording from lack of knowledge. Is it more like different internet “bands” (I’m sure that not the correct term). @DeWayfarer

@DeWayfarer @jackjjackson

[media=https://youtu.be/pTG_6ypYSS4]

@beckyromero Literally hundreds of thousands of people had a hand in the Internet. And not just in the USA only.

It's like I had a very small part in the MPEG video format. Yet I didn't invent the format.

@MyGirlPhotoswell
Don't know what narrative that's from. 😂

Joseph R. Biden, DEM 11,110,250 . . . 63.5%
Donald J. Trump, REP 6,006,429 . . . .34.3%

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/complete-sov.pdf
see page 8

Sure, it was a close election. And Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were the critical states that won it for Biden.

But Trump received over 6 million votes in California.

My mistake, 7 million vote victory. Even after it was settled that 3 states decided the victory for Biden, much of the same narrative was "Biden won by over 7 million votes" ....


Dec.1 2020- CNN--------Biden’s popular vote margin over Trump tops 7 million--
Washington
CNN
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President-elect Joe Biden’s margin over President Donald Trump in the nationwide popular vote is now more than 7 million votes and may continue to grow as several states continue counting votes.

Election fraud that could change the election outcome with over a 7 million vote margin would be an impossible undertaking.



If you didn't know that was much of the narrative immediately following the 2020 election to dispel Trumps claims of voter fraud, then you weren't paying attention... I'm not defending nor promoting Trump's claim of election fraud, I'm pointing out how the media manipulates data we receive to push a narrative. And you know I'm correct.

You can search and find much of the same narrative from AP, BBC, CBS, Cable News, etc,etc, etc. .

@MyGirlPhotoswell
You're trying to push a narrative that Biden's edge in the popular vote was due to California, as if it somehow delegitimizes his victory.

California happens to be part of the United States. And Biden's large victory there were no different that Trump's large victories in Texas, Florida and other states.

Biden winning the national popular vote AND the Electoral Vote wasn't something reported on the account of "manipulated data."

The FACT remains that Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania swung all three of the last presidential elections by narrow margins.

As Ronald Reagan, quoting John Adams, said, "Facts are stubborn things."

@GuiltyBiStander tgus post seems to uninvite your politics. Thanks for trying.

@GuiltyBiStander It's so sad that if "didn't vote" was a candidate, they would have won.

@BohemianBabe

True.

Not a Dem, but fact is we all lost something in this election.

@Sojournersoul

Like the saying goes,

"Close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear war."

@beckyromero Well i think we should stick with hand grenades.

@samueltyler2
We don't know. Because many of the people who don't vote are the same people who don't respond to pollster's questions.

Both parties like to assume that if everyone voted, their party would have won. But there's no way to draw a solid conclusion without evidence.

@JSul3 Correct. He does not have a mandate. What he has is a slim majority in congress who are enablers.

@wildland

Voter turnout (57.8%) was higher in 2024 than in both Obama's re-election in 2012 and Trump's election in 2016.

It didn't match 2020's turnout because of the increase in mail-in ballots used during the Covid pandemic.

In fact, since 21-year olds were given the right to vote in 1972, the only presidential election years in which turnout was higher than 2024 was in 2008 and 2020.

@beckyromero I blame Biden more than Harris. He had business to honor his promise to serve only one term and to step aside before the election cycle commenced.

@RedBaron
Biden never made such a pledge or promise.

@beckyromero not many do

@MyGirlPhotoswell we are a "Democratic Republic" and tho it has been years I did read the federalist founding documents
the author of that video is a College professor with significant education
and YES every 10 years, the numbers are adjusted
but the math is clear
one can win an electoral vote tally with about 22% of the popular vote
watch it again,,and pause when you get to a sticking point
then do the fact checking yourself

the candidate that wins the plurality gets ALL of the electoral votes
there may be some states that do not do this
but i am unaware of any'
and the smaller states are over represented in the electoral votes

here is a different explanation'
[media=https://youtu.be/ajavsMbCapY]

@SatyrService We are not a "democratic republic", We are a Constitutional Republic. Starting in the 20th century after World War II, many countries used the term "democratic republic" in their official names—most of which were Marxist–Stalinist , or socialist, one-party states.

This insistence that the U.S is anything other than a Constitutional Republic is an assault on the very founding principals of the United States of America, and is a very dangerous and perilous path we are being convinced to follow..

@MyGirlPhotoswell say more about that.
we practice democracy
and are a republic, a nation run for the benfit of its citizens. from Latin "res publica"
and when in our history were we not practicing a democratic process
the founders were o f many opinions,
jefferson vs hamilton moderated and mediated by Madison
tell me more about this perilous path

@Captainjackass And illegals

@eli1601 awww who’s the angry little racist.

@jackjjackson

A little closer, like 2016. Same three states.

So if we want real input we need to move to one of those. Oops I’m already in one and and have won two out of three 🇺🇸 @beckyromero