Description: Facing Climate Crisis • Urging Climate Action • Imagining Better Futures
Facing Climate Crisis • Urging Climate Action • Imagining Better Futures
In 2020, Joe Biden won the US presidential election with a margin of 306 to 232 in the Electoral College. More than 81 million people voted for him and his running mate, Kamala Harris, and they secured 4.5% more of the popular vote (and 7 million more votes) than did Donald Trump and whoever his running mate was that year ( I dare you to remember ). I do not recall anyone declaring it a landslide victory for Biden, and the general feeling was that he’d won by the narrowest of margins, setting aside the fact
In 2024, with 97% of the national vote tallied, Donald Trump won the US presidential election with a margin of 312 to 226 in the Electoral College. Assuming that roughly half of the 3% of the vote that remains to be counted went for Trump (perhaps generous, given that Blue states seem to be mostly left counting), then roughly 78 million people voted for him and his running mate J.D. Vance, and they secured ~ 2% more of the popular vote (and what should be roughly 3 million more votes) than did Kamala Harris