Of all the embarrassing failures Kamala Harris suffered at the ballot box – including the exodus of Hispanic, black, Asian and young voters – there is perhaps one that torments her the most.
The popular vote, represented in the staggering graphic below, reveals that more than 8 million Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 simply vanished as they refused to back the Democratic candidate in 2024.
Biden secured 81 million votes compared to Harris’ 73 million.
Harris supporters may try to dismiss this decline as the result of voter turnout being lower in 2024. But turnout is only projected to be two points lower – 65 percent against 67 percent in 2020.
Harris is ten points down on Biden’s numbers (with 97 percent of the total vote counted at the time of writing).
Donald Trump, on the other hand, bumped his numbers by more than a million votes this time around, trouncing Harris by a margin of 3 million.
He became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote for two decades.
Even Hillary Clinton, one of the most unpopular presidential candidates of the last 50 years, managed to defeat Trump on raw votes in 2016.
Hellbound and Down 