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I maintain the 90 million apathetic non-voters are the folks who gave Trump his victory. I also maintain that if the EC votes were apportioned according to popular vote in ‘24, instead of most states winner-take-all rules (and despite widespread gerrymandering), Trump MIGHT have eked out a shallow victory of a few votes. It’s also possible that he would have not cleared the 270 vote threshold for victory, depending on how the 3rd party tallies affected the EC tally in that case (with apportioned EC votes). If I remember rightly, that would have thrown the decision to the Congress which would have had one vote for each state, a total of only 50. Since there are many more red (read, “MAGA-mad”) states that blue states, Trump almost certainly would have prevailed, possibly even with a significant victory of up to 30 out of the 50. But all of this is something between Monday morning quarter-backing and wishful thinking. The fact is that Trump DID win a valid victory, although it seems that the EC deck was stacked in his favor, just as it was in ’16# when he lost the popular vote count by a million or so more than he prevailed by in ’24.
(#) It seems that Trump’s victory was potentially even thinner in ’16. Further parsing by precinct of the tallies in MI, WI, and PA (where HRC lost all 3 by a total of about 180,000) indicate that was even closer, on the order of about 70,000. With those three states under her belt, HRC would have beaten Trump in both the popular vote and EC totals, which would have been about the reverse of what they were.