[chowchowchow]

49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.

[terminalshort]

49.5% of 100% of the votes

[NewJazz]

Still not a majority.

[lotsofpulp]

It’s a first past the post election system, meaning you vote for the lesser evil. And this was Trump’s 2nd go around, where he campaigned on pardoning traitors. Anyone that didn’t vote for Harris gets lumped in with the supporters of the current administration, for all intents and purposes.

[chowchowchow]

Eh. You can’t claim the non voters all implicitly support him though since they didn’t know the outcome ahead of time. I’ll agree they didn’t sufficiently oppose him ahead of the 2nd time to bother voting. But that’s far from support.