FYI, the article you are posting is from November 2024, when all the votes weren’t counted yet.
The final numbers show Trump with 2.3 million more votes. 77.3 million (49.8%) vs 75 million (48.3%) of the total vote. Third part candidates, including write-ins, were 2.13% of the vote. 2.97 million people voted third party or write in. This is also not counting the 90 million that didn’t vote but where registered.
So no, you are wrong. If every single third party voter voted Harris, she would have won.
Except no, you probably should have read more closely. Yes more votes were counted later, the vast vast majority of them from the West Coast. In the swing States that actually decide the election, not the popular vote, the numbers did not change significantly. If every single voter who voted third party, which again is a stupid thing to assume they all would have voted for her considering the Libertarians were the second largest block, she still would have lost the election.
FYI, the article you are posting is from November 2024, when all the votes weren’t counted yet.
The final numbers show Trump with 2.3 million more votes. 77.3 million (49.8%) vs 75 million (48.3%) of the total vote. Third part candidates, including write-ins, were 2.13% of the vote. 2.97 million people voted third party or write in. This is also not counting the 90 million that didn’t vote but where registered.
So no, you are wrong. If every single third party voter voted Harris, she would have won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election
Except no, you probably should have read more closely. Yes more votes were counted later, the vast vast majority of them from the West Coast. In the swing States that actually decide the election, not the popular vote, the numbers did not change significantly. If every single voter who voted third party, which again is a stupid thing to assume they all would have voted for her considering the Libertarians were the second largest block, she still would have lost the election.
She would have won the popular vote. Not necessarily the election.