5 Big Lies About Why Donald Trump Won

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. The Monday morning quarterbacks have spoken. Here are five bad takes on the 2024 election. 1. Kamala Harris Ran a Bad Campaign Nah. We’re still crunching the numbers, but the latest estimate shows Harris will end up with about 76 million votes. That’s more votes than Obama got in either of his two elections. More votes than Hillary Clinton got in 2016. And more votes than Trump got in 2016 or 2020. Understandably, we’re judging her based on Joe Biden’s extraordinary turnout of 81 million votes in 2020, but those numbers shattered all existing records because it was a referendum on Trump’s failed presidency after four years of crisis, controversy, COVID-19, and economic collapse. RELATED: Yes, Trump Won. Here’s What Happens Next As for the Electoral College, Trump will end up with 312 electoral votes this year, about the same as Biden in 2020, who got 306.  But let’s not forget what Harris accomplished here. In only 107 days, she set up her own campaign operation, locked down the delegates...