• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Had those missing voters participated in good faith in 2024, Trump would not be president today.

    The problem with this argument is that it ignores the effects of Covid-19. A not-insignificant number of people who voted in 2020 didn’t vote in 2024 because they had died since then. I did the math once, and it’s buried somewhere in my comment history (I’m at work at the end of my break. I’ll look for it when I’m able to.)

    EDIT: Found the comment where I did the math. In the end, over 716,000 people died of Covid in the United States between 2020 and Dec 2024 (the time that comment was written, and the closest I could find date-wise at the time.)

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      14 hours ago

      No it doesn’t, or the republican votes would have gone down too. Lol, I was very clear that all of the loss was on the democratic side. Your theory doesn’t hold up.