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Trump: 77,302,580 votes / 49.8% of popular vote Harris: 75,017,613 votes / 48.3% of popular vote

It doesn't matter it wasn't 50%. He actually won the popular vote this time.

Technically you are correct. But actually the real winners were the extreme vote suppression tactics. Without them trump would have lost clearly: read the extremely conservative estimates targeted mostly non-trump voters: https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won...

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