Kamala Was The Wrong Candidate And It’s All Joe Biden’s Fault

Kamala Harris has, as of this writing, the fourth-most votes of any presidential candidate in U.S. history, the most by any woman, and the second-most by any Democrat, ever. She’s won about 4 million more votes than Barack Obama in 2008, 7.2 million more votes that Obama in 2012,…

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 16, 2024

Kamala Harris has, as of this writing, the fourth-most votes of any presidential candidate in U.S. history, the most by any woman, and the second-most by any Democrat, ever. She’s won about 4 million more votes than Barack Obama in 2008, 7.2 million more votes that Obama in 2012, 7.3 million more votes than Hillary Clinton, and 10.1 million more votes than Donald Trump in 2016.

And yes, it’s still a matter of turnout (the most amusing and ignorant counter to this tweet in the responses is that the number of voters “grows” each year. Uh, no. And irrelevant, since this is about raw numbers, not percentages):

We’re now down to 5.3 million fewer voters, and shrinking. In 2020, 158,429,631 Americans voted. As of this writing 153,103,472 Americans have voted. We will probably finish this cycle with a couple million fewer votes than 2020, and the pandemic year was a wild one — lockdowns and social distancing and masking requirements, massive unemployment, George Floyd, a late Supreme Court vacancy — and the intense and turbulent times likely spurred higher turnout than usual.

So it’s all return to status quo, except the status quo rests on a knife edge. The change is a long time coming. But it’s still coming.