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You're right, I am confused. It was clear what was going on under his first term... You guys voted him back in!!

The system elected him without a majority.

It was 49.9% vs 48.3%. The 1.8% of people voting for a 3rd party candidate and those who didn't vote were implicitly endorsing Trump.

That’s a weird way to say 50.1% of votes were against Trump.

Agreed, it is a weird way of saying that. But it is basically what I'm saying.

I used the word "endorsed", not "voted". The distinction does matter.

Only about 25% of the voting age public voted for Trump. Almost 25% of the voting age public weren't registered to vote, perhaps some of them wanted to vote but couldn't, so let's use the registered voters as the denominator. 75.8% of them voted; roughly one third for Trump, one third for Harris and one third didn't vote.

Choosing not to vote against a likely outcome is an endorsement of that outcome in my opinion.

We usually rely on polling for those answers. When you encounter a randomly-selected American on the street, do you find it 50/50? I’m in Wyoming, perhaps the reddest state, and it’s close to 50/50.

The third of the people who didn't vote are culpable.

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