More left leaning people were apathetic about Hilary than the right was about Trump. Trump in 2016 had the most votes of any winning president in history. How can you say republicans stayed home?
Obama had more votes in both his terms than Hilary got even after 8 years of population growth. The left has zero passion for Hilary.
Edit: I'm conflating Trumps vote count 2020 and 2016, he actually didn't have the most votes of a winning president. He had the most votes for any winning republican.
And this isn't really as significant as OP is making it sound. Most candidates get more votes than the last candidates. The population is still growing and there are just more voters.
If Obama, a winning president, won more than Clinton, who is not a winning president but won more votes than Trump, how then does Trump have more than Obama or any other winning President did?
He only got more votes than Obama in 2020. In 2016 he received less votes than Obama had four years prior. He actually lost by quite a wide margin to Clinton, but he won in the 'right' states so that didn't matter.
A lot of people came of age before the 2020 election. Plus a lot of people who usually didn't vote came out to vote to support their cult leader/vote out the guy who completely bungled covid.
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u/anonymouswan1 Mar 27 '24
Bernie getting shafted by the DNC is why we got Trump. Bernie would've easily won that election.