• 13igTyme@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    It’s also a false statement.

    The final numbers show Trump with 2.3 million more votes. 77.3 million (49.8%) vs 75 million (48.3%) of the total vote. Third part candidates, including write-ins, were 2.13% of the vote. 2.97 million people voted third party or write in. This is also not counting the 90 million that didn’t vote but where registered.

    If every single third party voter voted Harris, she would have won.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

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      8 hours ago

      That’s… Not how US elections work. Otherwise Hillary would’ve won 2016

      Looking at the state results it doesn’t appear that any state would’ve flipped blue if all third party voters excluding Robert Kennedy and Oliveros (libertarian) voters because they definitely would not have gone Harris went Harris. Even if you count the right wing 3rd party ones she only would’ve won 2 more states and still lost.

      If we used the popular vote I definitely would’ve voted Harris, but as it is Trump was going to win my state by huge margins so I just voted who I really wanted knowing it made no difference. In races other than president I went Dem.