Biden re-elected if he gets 35 of 79 tossup electoral
college votes?
For the 2024 Presidential election, by applying the Electoral
College votes to each state that has either President Biden or ex-President
Trump in the lead, Trump would have 235 electoral votes to 226 for President
Biden.
It takes 270 to become President.
So President Biden needs 35 of the remaining 79
votes, less than half of those still on the fence.
The tossup states are Wisconsin, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.
Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia went for President
Trump in 2020, BUT a switch of 77,000 combined votes in those 3 states would
have meant a tie in the Electoral College which would have had the House of
Representatives decide who become President.
154.6 million Americans voted but 77,000 people
decided who would be President.
In the 2020 Presidential election, Biden got 51.31%
of popular vote, Trump 46.85%, which does not determine who becomes President. Electoral
votes do. Biden got 56.88% of the electoral votes, Trump 43.12% and was a
bigger winner in electoral votes than in the popular vote.
Trump lost popular vote in 2016 AND 2020 but in 2016
became the 5th President to sit in the Oval Office despite losing
the popular vote because, under our Constitution, the Electoral College vote
determines our Presidents.
Biden got 232 electoral votes, winning 25 states,
D.C. & 1 Nebraska congressional district. Biden won 26 states (but didn’t
need 9 with smaller votes he won), Trump 24.
Biden won 5 states that Trump won in 2016: Arizona,
Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the main reason Biden is President
today.
If Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Biden’s narrowest
victories, had gone to Trump instead there would have been a 269-269 tie and would
have sent the decision to the House of Representatives, where each state got 1
vote (Rhode Island would have as much power as California, unlike the general
election itself) and there were enough Republican states that could have made
Trump re-elected.
A switch of 77,000 votes in Wisconsin, Georgia,
Arizona would have given their delegates to Trump instead of Biden.
2020 ELECTORAL VOTES
For Biden
56 California
29 New York
20 Illinois
20 Pennsylvania
16 Georgia
16 Michigan
14 New Jersey
13 Virginia
12 Washington
11 Arizona
11 Massachusetts
10 Wisconsin
10 Maryland
10 Minnesota
9 Colorado
7 Connecticut
7 Oregon
(271 total, enough to win election)
6 Nevada
5 New Mexico
4 Rhode Island
4 Hawaii
4 New Hampshire
3 Vermont
3 Delaware
3 D.C.
3 Maine
1 Nebraska
For Trump
38 Texas
29 Florida
18 Ohio
15 North Carolina
11 Indiana
11 Tennessee
10 Missouri
9 South Dakota
9 Alabama
8 Kentucky
8 Louisiana
7 Oklahoma
6 Utah
6 Mississippi
6 Arkansas
6 Iowa
6 Kansas
5 West Virginia
4 Idaho
4 Nebraska
3 North Dakota
3 Alaska
3 Montana
3 Wyoming
1 Maine
2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Trump got 306 electoral votes even though he had fewer
people voting for him than Hillary Clinton, who got only 232 electoral votes despite
getting her name on more ballots.
That’s the way our Constitution works and has elected
FIVE Presidents who lost the popular vote: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B.
Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
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