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As of this writing on Friday, Donald Trump’s popular vote total stood at 74,269,316. By the time you see this article and click on that link, however, that total is certain to be higher. Trump’s final popular vote total has now exceeded his official 2020 total of 74,225,926. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has 68,800,347 popular votes, a steep decline from Old Joe Biden’s 2020 total of 81,286,454.
As Victoria Taft noted here, that raises a lot of uncomfortable questions about what exactly happened in 2020. Yet apparently oblivious to self-incrimination, even some leftists are asking what is going on — and, of course, blaming Trump.
That Trump would have gotten roughly the same number of votes in 2024 as he did in 2020 is perfectly reasonable. He is, thanks to the left’s relentless campaign of defamation, a highly controversial figure, and while the 2024 campaign certainly changed some people’s minds about him, it is no surprise that his base of support remained roughly the same size that it was the last time around.
But what about that massive drop-off between Old Joe, the most popular president in American history according to his vote total, and Kamala? Not only did eleven million voters not show up for Harris as they did for Biden, but they didn’t go anywhere. Not only did Kamala not get those votes, but there is no comparable increase in anyone else’s vote total.
Pam Keith, a far-left Democrat who ran a failed campaign for Congress from Florida in 2020, is one leftist who thinks all this is highly suspicious. On X, she reposted a conspiracy-minded leftist’s case for assuming that the eleven million missing votes are not, as is painfully obvious, proof that the 2020 election was indeed stolen, but of 2024 Trump ballot box chicanery: “What mystifies, enrages and terrifies me: His mention of not needing votes. His little secret w\ Mike Johnson. His low attended gibberish rallies. Her Monstrous crowds. Lines for hours to vote. Record turnout. And now we are just going to ‘pffft’ not count 20m votes. WTF!”
In stating that Trump mentioned “not needing votes,” the X user was referring to a conspiracy theory that Rachel Maddow pushed hard on MSNBC. Maddow claimed that Trump’s boasts about not needing votes—which was an obvious claim to having substantial enough support to win the election—were evidence that he planned to take power by other means, maybe, say, another “insurrection.” Now, her hysteria over Trump’s boasts has become part of the case for claiming that Bad Orange Man made all those Democrat votes disappear.
Pam Keith herself added: “The problem with our campaign post-mortem is that the result makes no sense and is likely fraudulent. But no one will do anything to ascertain what happened. So we are going to engage in recriminations and blame, when we did everything right and somehow 20 million votes evaporated. What we lost when Trump won the first time is normalcy. This time it will be so much worse. And the thing is, there is nothing for us to fix in what we did. We lead with inclusive and intelligent policy, and exceptional candidates. We had four years of stability and growth and decency, and now we will have none of that. What is the point about arguing what we will do in the next election? There isn’t going to be one. There isn’t going to be one.”
Keith’s fantasies about Biden’s success and paranoia about Trump’s alleged thirst to be a dictator aside, she has an excellent point. Someone should indeed do something to ascertain what happened to all those 2020 voters. Once Trump takes office again, he should invite Pam Keith to the White House and throw his support behind the idea of a full investigation of how it was that Old Joe Biden so far outpolled not only Kamala Harris but the sainted Barack Obama himself. The missing eleven million voters are likely to be dead by now — after all, they were when they voted — but a full investigation could proceed anyway.
For four years, it has been impossible even to ask questions about the 2020 election. Those who dared even to suggest that it may not actually have been the most secure election in history have been defamed as conspiracy theorists and deplatformed and silenced accordingly. Surely Pam Keith and other leftists who share her mindset must now be happy to join patriots in thinking that a monstrous injustice has been done, and that it must now be rectified with a searching and fearless investigation. No?
Ron Kelmell says
Leftists heads are already imploding or melting. Believing their own claptrap and still dreaming for America to go down to Third World United Nations dependency makes the lot hard to deal with.
My plan is to live well and by so doing to show I’m neither a Nazi nor garbage.
SkippingDog says
Your first sentence completely contradicts your last.
Allan Goldstein says
Where are the missing falsified ballots?
Jeff Bargholz says
Probably in a Delaware garage belonging to Alzheimer Joe Beijing Biden.
Spurwing Plover says
Preventing our Solders in Uniforms and our Military from voting should be a Unconstitutional and a major Crime by the Demo-Rats/Globalists
Hannah Katz says
Remember the videos in 2020 of guys driving forklifts with pallets of ballots after the election workers had been sent home for the night? This time that was not allowed to happen. Thanks to the GOP for being on the lookout.
jeremiah says
Citizens taking on the responsibility to protect democracy and a fair vote
Spirit of TJ says
Regarding 2020, what might be worth contemplating was how the left responded to the questioning of final vote counts. The left was simply dismissive. The haggard mantra heard over and over again was ‘conspiracy theorist!,’ as Mr. Spencer points out.
Yet astute critical thinkers might have taken that leftist response as a form of silent evidence (Taleb), and that it was time to dig deeper. Had there been nothing to hide, or no fear of exposure, one might have expected full cooperation in opening the books.
Yet that did not occur.
That might tell us something.
Whereas that dismissiveness does not prove any wrongdoing, arguably it does suggest the prudent thing to do is to reconsider dispassionately and objectively what occurred four years ago. Honest elections are a backbone of a liberal constitutional republic. They must be protected and assured.
Greg says
The emblem of the Democ-rat donkey ought to be pictured next to Google’s definition of PROJECTION: “a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously or consciously attributes their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto others. It can be a way to avoid acknowledging or dealing with difficult emotions.”
Spirit of San Jacinto says
b. a offensive “Alynski” mechanism where a person unconsciously or consciously attributes their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto others. The tactic is furthered by committing acts in alignment with those attributes. Finally when caught blame the actions on the targeted ‘others.’
Steve Chavez says
20,000 DOWN BALLOT VOTES more than the Presidential vote total is what was being reported in AZ and another state, I think PA. COMO??? Usually those numbers are close to the same. The Presidential picks are on top of the ballot, Vote (D) then the same votes for (D) down the line especially for House and Senate, with some maybe a protest vote against a (D). 20,0oo? Something is wrong… plus the missing voters.
WHAT IF A REAL INVESTIGATION found a fraudulent, and a conspiracy, so FJB could be DJT in 2020? IT’S LONG GONE… WHAT…. ERASE BIDEN’S PRESIDENCY? THEY’RE LAUGHING BUT NOW TRUMP, AND WE THE PEOPLE, GOT THE LAST LAUGH! But what really take that smile, with Fanged Teeth, off that face, is for a real investigation into HUNTER AND THE BIG GUY! THIS IS REVENGE…. LAWFARE… IT’S JUSTICE AND HISTORY DEMANDS THE TRUTH!
DNY says
More down-ballot votes than Presidential votes is simply an indication that a lot of voters thought both choices were unacceptable, and didn’t have a preferred third-party option. There was a lot of sentiment of that sort even in the commentariate this time (and the previous, and the one before), so it really isn’t suprising that it would show up in the vote totals.
Slanta Cause says
Just subtract 11 million from her total and that’s probably the actual number of votes she got.
RickCheetah says
2008 black hussein-obama 69 million
2012 black hussein-obama 65 million
2020 white Beiging biden 81 million
2024 black heels up harris 68 million
Why? The leftist democrats are…RACISTS!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TRex says
Could it be the Dems were so worried about getting caught this time they didn’t dare break out the 20m votes they had lying in wait? Funny how a graph I saw showed the Dem turnout to be almost the same over the last couple of elections except for 2020. The graph showed the turnout to return to the same levels, prior to 2020, in 2024. Instead of asking where that 20M went, perhaps, we should be asking where it came from in the first place. Anyone with a functioning brain already knows the answer to that question. Why spend the money on an investigation that proves what we already know?
Kevin Kock says
Details are outlined in “2000 Mules”.
John XY says
No serious person believes any more that Uncle Joe got 81 million votes. Let’s try some simple arithmetic. (Yeah, I know … lefties and arithmetic don’r mix.) Take 11 from 81 and you get 70 million votes. That’s what Joe actually got in 2020. And yes that’s clearly less than the 74 million allocated to Trump.
Do we really need a “fearless investigation” to figure this out? Where are the 11 million voters? Simple answer.
They were never really there.
Spurwing Plover says
Judicial Watch is helping to Fix up the mess and end Illegal Votes from Illegal Aliens their already going after NBC for their Olympic Opening Ceremony back in July
SKA says
“ His low attended gibberish rallies. Her Monstrous crowds.” On what planet do these folks live?
Miranda Rose Smith says
I don’t figure that as 11 million missimg voters, only a few of whom may have gone over to Trump. I figure that as more than 12 million voters. Want to see my math?
DGray says
Spot on! Everyone with a brain that can do simple math knows the 11 million extra voters for Biden were rigged mail-in ballots creating more votes than total registered voters in 2020!
Annie45 says
DGray
Yep. Those 11 million voters don’t exist. In 2020, thanks
to the Communist Chinese-released virus – voters sent
in unsupervised mailed ballots. Setting the stage for the
biggest steal in history, that of the U.S. Presidential
election – and for a soft coup against the United States.
And why the USA has undergone so much damage and
harm these past four years at the hands of the usurpers.
This time 2024, Americans turned out in person and
enmasse until the overwhelming vote for President Trump
became too big to rig.
Kent Rebman says
“His low attended gibberish rallies. Her Monstrous crowds.” Uh … OK, if you say so Toots. Dang, that’s some absolutely epic delusion there.
Beto says
The explanation is obvious — the electorate was not joyous about Kamala
Robert F Holub says
Were the signatures forged? Nobody checked if the “voters” still lived? It seems an incredible sloppiness. 11M is a lot. And they got away with it?
Shawn says
They have to go county by county. Compare past data with present. Don’t forget the internet connected machines were reported to create 1/8 to 1/4 of a vote for Biden every time it counted a Trump vote.
George Mallory says
The key to investigating the disparity in votes is to look at states and congressional districts. Look at the Dakotas first and note any disparities and then pick Minnesota and Illinois and look at 2020 versus 2024 and specific congressional districts. National totals obviously derive from the addition of smaller units. I am not holding my breath.
Marcus Middleton says
Perhaps if those millions of voters had always voted you might suspect Trump, however, they never voted before 2020 either. They didn’t vote before Biden or after Biden. Only for Biden. What’s the common denominator? Biden
Patrick Spooner says
Stop your crying!
PWS says
spoonerpatrick07@gmail.com
Whiskey Jack says
Yeah, even the Soprano’s “Frankie the Fixer” couldn’t rigg this one!