I dunno; he gained 2.3 million over Clinton’s 2016 total in CA. I’d say that’s a sizable chunk.
He gained 1.3 million in TX — which I’m not sure if it’s really fair to call a battleground state, if Democrats have consistently been losing it by between 600,000 and a million votes, including in 2020.
He also went up by a higher number in IL than a few different numbers in OP’s chart. (Relative to population, he goes up by a similar percent in D.C. He goes up by 270,000 in Ohio — another state that was a huge Trump win in 2016, and a comfortable Trump win in 2020 too.)
The true battleground states remain low-victory-margin battleground states. The total turnout for Trump and Biden in these went up pretty equally over Trump/Clinton turnout; it’s just the final outcomes here that shifted (again, by usually very low margins).
That's correct, he made advances in EVERY state. Biden tiny gains in every state, with MASSIVE gains in ONLY battleground states.
Incumbents making ground like this with voters and STILL losing is absolutely unheard of.
I dunno; he gained 2.3 million over Clinton’s 2016 total in CA. I’d say that’s a sizable chunk.
He gained 1.3 million in TX — which I’m not sure if it’s really fair to call a battleground state, if Democrats have consistently been losing it by between 600,000 and a million votes, including in 2020.
He also went up by a higher number in IL than a few different numbers in OP’s chart. (Relative to population, he goes up by a similar percent in D.C. He goes up by 270,000 in Ohio — another state that was a huge Trump win in 2016, and a comfortable Trump win in 2020 too.)
The true battleground states remain low-victory-margin battleground states. The total turnout for Trump and Biden in these went up pretty equally over Trump/Clinton turnout; it’s just the final outcomes here that shifted (again, by usually very low margins).