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If you take the best estimate of US population at being around 340 million, Tump got less that 25 percent of the vote (74 million), now that's not including kids and people (African American people) who are disqualified from voting. Still only 155 million out of 340 million voted, however the US only has around 165 million registered voters. That's ****ing nuts less than have the country is enfranchised, its like something of of Victorian Britain.
To be more precise, according to the 2020 census there are 258 million adults in the US. Around 8% are felons, so take away another 19 million, and that leaves 239 million possible voters. Round down to maybe 235 million to account for people incapable of voting really, incapacitated or otherwise handicapped. So only 155 million of 235 million voted. That's actually a higher percentage than I expected, at 66%. Still 80 million didn't vote. Hard to say what percentage of those would have been "throw-away" votes, like any Democrats in Utah, due to the electoral college. Not sure what the likelihood was of enough of those 80 million being in a state where that would have swayed the election. Although this is a more clear picture of the willing self-disenfranchised.