• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is also something that many people outside of the USA don’t understand: 49% of the americans are not voting for the Trump/republican shit show that they see in their foreign media, but rather for a heavily editorialized image of the person and party.

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      5 months ago

      49% of the americans

      More accurately, 49% of voters. Out of all of the eligible voters in the 2020 election only 66% actually voted. And, that election had the highest turnout in over a century.

      So when trying to calculate how many eligible voters voted for Trump in 2020 you’ll have to take the statistics above into consideration.

      49% of 66% is 32% if my math is correct. 32% of eligible voters voted for Trump.

      Sorry for being pedantic but it annoys me when people say that half of America supports Trump when it’s just not true.