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I was one of the people pushing the 15 million people idea right after the election, but it turns out some places count really slow and a disproportionate amount of that is in California, where there are a lot of Democrats even in safely Republican districts. It turns out there were only about 3 million people who didn't vote in 2024 vs 2020. (And since we were still in the middle of a pandemic in 2020, a good chunk of those 3 million people might not have legitimately been around to vote in 2024, which is a decent excuse.)
Biden won in 2020 by 7 million votes. But Harris lost 6 million Biden voters, while Trump somehow gained 3 million. So in the end, Trump won the popular vote by 2 mil. Sounds to me like the key problem was Biden voters getting fed up and crossing sides to see what would happen.
And we're now in the Finding Out stage.
(Source: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024 and the similar page for 2020)
That's fair, I know the numbers narrowed after all the votes were counting, but i didn't know the actual numbers. Dunno that I really find any solace in knowing we almost beat fuck face, and this stupid project 2025 bullshit. Instead we get to find out how bad it really is going to be.