The Voters Who Weren’t There

"When I saw initial results that Trump had won 51% of the vote, it seemed as if there must have been a big shift in his favour over the past four years. If true, this would have ominous cultural implications as well as political ones.
    "But the numbers help put this in perspective. In 2020, Donald Trump lost decisively with 74,223,975 votes. Last week, he won decisively with 75,173,436 votes—a very small increase. If Kamala Harris had gotten anywhere near Joe Biden’s 81,283,501 votes from last year, she would have won easily. Instead, she got only 71,931,452 votes.
    "In effect, Trump didn’t win because he rallied a new surge of supporters to the polls. He won because ten million former Democratic voters stayed home."

~ Robert Tracinski from his post 'The Abyss'