The exit polls, which ask people who they voted for after they voted, don't even go through voting machines and are processed by an entirely different set of people and organizations. But they showed the same thing the official results said. Biden won Arizona.
People who voted in Pima County, Arizona (Tucson area), just like people in Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix area) told pollsters, after they voted, that they voted for Biden. By nearly the same margins as the official vote tally showed.
And it's not like Trump was doing great in these counties in Arizona where most of the voters live before 2020. He didn't do that well there in 2016 either.
In Georgia, more than half of the people old enough to vote in the whole state live in the Atlanta metro area. Which Biden won by 15 points.
Biden won most of the votes in the state's six largest metropolitan areas.
Trump did very well in the smaller metropolitan areas of Georgia as well as the counties which are not in metropolitan areas.
But there are fewer people living there.
Trump lost Georgia.
I accidentally put this in a separate thread, but, here's how Trump lost Pennsylvania.
Michigan. Like everywhere else Trump lost, Trump lost because he lost big in the places where most of the people live.
He won big in places where not as many people live.
In Wisconsin, which was a very close state (just as it was in 2016 when Trump won it), Trump lost two largest metro areas, where 39% of the state's voters live.
Trump nearly made up for it in the rest of the state. But he fell short.
This formula applies to every state in the country for the 2020 election.
And it's really easy to understand. It's just not hard.
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GOP Senators running for re-election in 2022 who voted to advance the bipartisan gun safety bill:
Murkowski (AK)
Young (IN)
GOP Senators up for re-election who DIDN’T:
Boozman (AR)
Crapo (ID)
Grassley (IA)
Hoeven (ND)
Kennedy (LA)
Landlord (OK)
Lee (UT)
Johnson (WI)
Moran (KS)
GOP Senators up for re-election in 2022 who DIDN’T vote to advance debate over the bipartisan gun legislation (continued):
Paul (KY)
Rubio (FL)
Scott (SC)
Thune (SD)
All 50 Democratic Senators supported the legislation. Including Joe Manchin.
The legislation includes support for the following:
- Funding for states to implement Red Flag laws, which may have prevented a number of gun crimes had they been in place (and which are already in place in Florida, despite both its Senators voting against it).
One of the many victims of Trump’s election lie and the repeating of his lie by propagandists and media outlets loyal to Trump is Dominion Voting Systems. They were falsely maligned by the likes of Rudy Giuliani, FNC, Newsmax and the other Carnival Barkers in Trump’s orbit.
But just to illustrate a point, here is a partial list of some large counties in key states that flipped from red to blue in 2020 and that DIDN’T use Dominion Voting Systems:
Tarrant County, TX
Pinellas County, FL
Duval County, FL
Johnson County, KS
Williamson County, TX
Large Counties flipped from red to blue in 2020 (Trump lost in 2020 but had won in 2016) which also did not use Dominion Voting Systems software:
Montgomery County, OH
Seminole County, FL
Virginia Beach City, VA
Hillsborough County, FL
Chesterfield County, VA
Marion County, OR
Trump lost Pennsylvania because he lost the state's largest metro area, the Philadelphia area, where a third of the people old enough to vote live, by a lot (33 points). And he won the state's second largest metro area, Pittsburgh, only by a little bit (2 points).
Trump did well in the smaller metropolitan areas in Pennsylvania as well as in the counties which are not in metropolitan areas. But there are fewer people living there.
Bear in mind that Trump only barely won Pennsylvania in 2016.
People who voted in Philadelphia told exit pollsters after they voted that they voted for Biden. By nearly the same margin as the official results.
On this day in 1964, civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Cheney and Andrew Goodman were kidnapped and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
They were involved with the Freedom Summer campaign, which existed to help register black people to vote.
Despite nationwide concern over the fate of the missing civil rights workers, former Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson promoted false rumors about the men, suggesting that the men were alive but had fled to Cuba.
During the 44 day-long search for the bodies of Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman, searchers accidentally found the bodies of other black men who had been murdered by the Klan.