President Donald Trump didn’t win the 2024 election by turning Democratic voters to his side, but because of his past supporters coming out to vote. A recent PEW Research Center analysis released Thursday revealed that 2020 Trump supporters returned to vote for him in numbers in 2024, whereas voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 either did not support Kamala Harris, or simply didn’t vote at all. The report showed that 85 percent of 2020 Trump voters voted for him again, with around 11 percent abstaining. This gave the president a necessary leg up on Harris, who was only able to acquire 79 percent of Joe Biden’s 2020 voters, with 15 percent not voting and 6 percent turning to Trump or a different candidate. “This Pew report basically says, ‘Yeah, we did it,’” the lead pollster for Trump’s campaign, Tony Fabrizio, told The New York Times. The report also confirmed that Trump’s 2024 voter coalition was “more racially and ethnically diverse” than ever. It noted that even “if all Americans eligible to vote in 2024 had cast ballots, the overall margin in the popular vote likely would not have been much different,” Harris simply not having enough support to snag the win.
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