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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's why I'm not counting everyone, just the people that voted.

Winning the popular vote just means winning a plurality of the votes. He got more votes than Harris. Once you account for all the other candidates, though, his total comes out to less than 50% of all the people that voted. No one got a majority.

And in many countries if no one gets a majority there is a runoff. This is another structural problem that the US has.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Got it. Thanks for explaining.