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minus-squareBaron Von J@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down3·3 days ago The fact is that the majority of voters chose Trump, period Except they didn’t. Trump received 49.8% of the vote. The actual fact is the majority of voters chose someone else, they just didn’t agree enough on who that someone else should be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
minus-squareuienia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days ago Trump received 49.8% of the vote. Even that is misleading, since this is just the percentage of the people who actually voted. More people didn’t vote at all than voted for him.
Except they didn’t. Trump received 49.8% of the vote. The actual fact is the majority of voters chose someone else, they just didn’t agree enough on who that someone else should be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
Even that is misleading, since this is just the percentage of the people who actually voted. More people didn’t vote at all than voted for him.