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FBaggins

(28,390 posts)
8. Simply not realistic
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 06:13 PM
Saturday

TX does indeed have lower turnout than most states... but they were only about 7% below the national average.

If you increase turnout in TX by 7% and 100% of those extra voters voted for Harris... Trump still would have won the state. We didn't lose TX because there is a hidden majority of democrats who are just bad citizens.

More importantly, this theory badly misunderstands why some states have low turnouts. The lowest turnout state in the union was Hawaii... but you can look at any on the list. Their turnout is low because the race isn't competitive.

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