• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Those numbers don’t matter though.

    What they were saying, accurately, was that the election was decided by a few tens of thousands of voters delivering swing states with tight races.

    Trump lost by a few million votes in 2016 too, but that’s not what mattered then either.

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      11 months ago

      Those numbers do matter for clarity. Saying he didn’t lose by millions blurs the truth. Saying he lost by a few thousand votes is not at all accurate when electoral college votes are the only ones that matter, and adding “in a few swing states,” only fuels those stop the steal Maga idiots