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Lemmy users don't realise just how popular Trump was in the 2024 election.
Trump won 15% of black voters in 2024, up from 8% in 2020 and 6% in 2016.
21% of black men voted for Trump in 2024. Both black men and black women were both more likely to back Trump in 2024 than in 2020.
Trump won nearly half of voters aged 18 to 29 in 2024, versus about one-third in 2020.
49% of men under 50 voted for Trump in 2024, versus 43% in 2020. That group went from backing Biden by 10 points in 2020 to being essentially split in 2024, with Trump holding a narrow edge.
Trump reached 48% of Hispanic voters in 2024, up from 36% in 2020. Harris won Hispanics by only 3 points, compared with Biden’s 25-point advantage in 2020.
Trump received 77,302,580 votes in 2024 - 2.5 million more than in 2020 and 14.3 million more than 2016.
Trump won 49.80% of the national vote and he became the first Republican nominee in 20 years to win the popular vote.
Trump won 312 electoral votes in 2024 vs 232 in 2020 and 304 in 2016. In state terms, that works out to roughly 31 states in 2024, up from 25 states in 2020 and slightly above his 30 states in 2016.
Trump won a bigger share of the vote in every state and Washington, D.C. than he did in 2020, and won more actual votes in 40 states.
In 2024, Trump took all of the seven most competitive states.
I don't attribute this to Trump's political prowess, but the ability for the Democrats to unwaveringly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Imagine how bad they had to be to lose to Trump. Their commitment to taking the 20% side of every 80/20 issues will be studied for decades. This wasn't rocket science. Whatever your views, letting in 10M+ illegal immigrants in four years was a deeply unpopular policy. So was their permissive approach to crime and acceptance of racial discrimination (as long as the victims were the right color).
I hope they don't make the same mistakes in 2028 but the current selection of candidates is not making me hopeful. Trump is doing his best to lose voters so I fear 2028 will be yet another choice of "who do you hate least?" The US really needs electoral reform. The two party system has resulted in complacent, bloated, arrogant parties which seem to care very little for the interests of the people. Entire books have been written on the broken primary structure alone, which requires placating the more extreme elements of each respective base just to get a shot at the presidency. This inevitably results in candidates from both sides which the other side cannot stand.