Did Trump Get a Mandate?

A Marxist View of Current Events
1 min readNov 24, 2024

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Popular Vote Presidential Election Results, 2024 vs 2020

Total Popular Vote for president:

Trump — 76.9 million in 2024 up 2.7 million from 2020 (74.2 million in 2020)

Democrats — 74.4 million in 2024, down 6.9 million from 2020 (81.3 million in 2020)

Percent of popular vote:

Trump — — 49.9% 2024, 46.9% 2020

Dems — — 48.3% 2024, 51.3% 2020

Votes for third party presidential candidates in 2024:

2.5 million, 1.6% of total vote for president

How many voted for president?

2024–153.5 million about 63 % of eligible voters ,2020–156 million,

How many eligible voters did not vote for president in 2024?:

90 million, 16% more than the votes that either Trump or Harris received

How many adults in the U.S. are ineligible to vote in state and national elections?

Felons — 4 million

Non-citizen immigrants — -21.5 million

What % of U.S. adult population voted for Trump?

29%

What % of U.S. adult population voted for Harris?

28%

What % of U.S. adult population voted for president in 2024?

57 %

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president

https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president?election-data-id=2024-PG&election-

https://www.coopercenter.org/research/more-half-us-immigrants-eligible-vote

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2024-four-million-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/

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A Marxist View of Current Events
A Marxist View of Current Events

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Steve Leigh is a member of Seattle Revolutionary Socialists and Firebrand, national organization of Marxists, 50 year socialist organizer. See Firebrand.red

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