We're Screwed

 Again.

Election Day 2024

I wrote two essays for this Election Day — one for each outcome.

One is very short: “Weʼre screwed. Again.”

This is the other essay.

Whatever the outcome, Donald Trump will most likely have lost the popular vote for the third straight election.

How must that make him feel?

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 by nearly 2.9 million votes. 65,844,954 votes for Clinton, and 62,979,879 for Trump.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton- popular-vote-final-count

Thatʼs a difference of 2,865,075 votes.

Imagine a football stadium filled with 75,000 people, all of whom did not vote for Trump.

Now imagine THIRTY-EIGHT football stadiums, each one filled with 75,000 people who did not vote for Trump, plus an additional 15,075 people all milling around outside — all non-Trump voters, every single one.

Thatʼs gotta get under Donald Trumpʼs skin, all those people who preferred Hillary Clinton for POTUS.

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Now the 2020 election, that wasnʼt nearly so close. 158,429,631 people voted in 2020.

There were more than 81 million votes for Joe Biden and 74.2 million votes for Donald Trump.

Biden won the popular vote by 6.8 million votes, more than twice the margin that Clinton beat Trump.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/25/how-many- people-voted-2020-election/75838131007/

Think 90 football stadiums filled with people who didnʼt vote for Trump. Ninety!

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By how many (million) votes will Trump lose the popular vote in 2024?  Who knows.

(And to a woman of color, no less.)

Weʼll have to wait and see.