Donald Trump points at a group of photographers and says, “fake news” while posing with National Border Patrol Council during a campaign rally on October 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
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On this episode of Start Making Sense, we go over how Trump “won”: In 2024, 244 million Americans were eligible to vote; 31.5 percent voted for Trump, 30.6 percent for Harris, and 38 percent did not vote. Trump won the same share of the eligible voters as he did four years ago (32 percent), But Harris’s share of eligible voters fell by 3.5 points compared to Biden’s. Why did so many potential voters stay home? Harold Meyerson has our analysis—he’s editor-at-large of The American Prospect.
Also on this episode: Now that Trump is preparing to round up and deport undocumented residents, we want to thank them for everything they’ve done to make America good. It’s a sentiment they don’t hear nearly enough–especially the “unaccompanied minors,” who have “shown more bravery in their young lives than anyone in Trump’s administration could ever dream of.” Gustavo Arellano will explain—he’s a columnist for the Los Angeles Times whose father came to the US in the 1960s in the trunk of a Chevy.
