Eastern Oregon Bear said:
I don't know why you guys keep making references to this meaningless fact. It doesn't make Trump the 2020 winner when Biden had FAR more votes than Trump and FAR more votes than Clinton had in 2016.
Quite simple, MAGAts aren't the best and the brightest that the conservative world has to offer.
They aren't so dumb that they think that Trump's increase in votes is like a tiebreaker or anything important, but it helps their hurt widdle feelings. They also use it to bolster their idiotic conspiracy theories which were created to treat Trump's narcissistic injury and have been repeated and amplified my morons and grifters for the last few years.
The voting totals show that 2016 was a relatively low turnout election. That was litterally one of Trump's biggest keys to victory and why they leaned so heavily into Cambridge Analytica. It's why voter suppression was so integral to their strategy in 2020 and why they are focused on changing as many law as they can to make it harder to vote. When people vote, the GOP loses. It's as simple as that.
2020, by contrast, was a massive historical voter turnout. We haven't seen anything like it since 1900. That was driven largely by Trump's historical unpopularity. He was a horrible president, people hated him and they turned out to vote against him. Biden received 16M more votes than Clinton did 4 years prior.
I doubt we have that level of turnout this time around but young people are becoming more and more politically engaged and it's possible that once Biden starts campaigning heads up again in a few months that things will heat back up. People have a lot of reasons to show up in 2024. Trump's corrupt radical clerics have been stripping away our individual freedoms and every chance voters have had to vote where abortion is on the ballot, the GOP has gone down in flames.
Because Biden kicked Trump's azz so badly, you don't here a lot of democrats crowing about 2020 but there is plenty of ammunition to use against these sore losers. Like did you know that Biden more than doubled Clinton's popular vote margin of victory? Despite Trump targeting hispanic voters with conspiracy theories and other misinformation late in the campaign, Arizona saw 40% higher hispanic voter turnout and Biden won almost 3/4 of those new voters. Similarly, the increase in black voters in Michigan and Pennslyvania (in large part due to combating Trump's voter suppression) was crucial to Biden's victory. There were 28,000 more black voters in Milwaukee county alone. And almost half of Biden's gains in Georgia, which he won by more than 11k votes, came from the four counties with the most black voters. Of course Trump's attempt to illegally interfere in the Georgia election resulted in his indictment there and his buddy Rudy recently lost $150M judgment for spreading their idiotic conspiracy theories about the election.
But the reason Biden will win big again in 2024 is much simpler. The country is doing fine. The economy is humming along. GDP growth has been much better under Biden than Trump. In fact, Biden's economy has increased it's GDP about 2.5x the increase from Trump's term. Unemployment remains at record lows. We haven't had a combat death in more than 2 years and Biden has managed to steer us clear of entering into any international conflict, despute Trump's international buddies finding plenty of trouble to get into. Biden's term has been a return to relative stability and it's been great for our economy and country overall. People don't want a return to Trump and his chaos. I mean, the MAGAts do, but most people are normal and want nothing to do with Trump's revenge and failure tour.
Deep down, even the diehard MAGAts know this is all true which is why they are going deeper and deeper into conspiracy land. It's in part to coddle their fragilities and in part because, well, they aren't smart enough to figure out when Trump is lying to them and working his grift (hint - it's always).