DECRYPTION – In both camps, some voters see this significant gap as a sign of fraud, in 2020 among the Republicans, in 2024 among the Democrats. However, there are completely rational reasons.
False announcements of support, truncated or decontextualized videos… As in 2020, the 2024 American presidential campaign was marked by floods of disinformation coming from the United States, hostile countries and the candidates themselves. The hours and days following the election should also be conducive to protests and accusations of electoral fraud of all kinds. Donald Trump's clear victory could have put an end to these desires. But it revived an old conspiracy theory from 2020, exploited today by voters on both sides.
Because for now, and while all the ballots in the country have not yet been counted, Kamala Harris has “only” 71 million votes, or 10 million less than Joe Biden in 2020, who broke a record in the matter with 81.2 million votes. For some Republican voters, this deficit proves that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that millions of votes
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