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).
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).