One big downside of states taking awhile to count votes is we get narratives about depressed turnout that just aren't remotely accurate.
We have about ~1.5 million votes still to count. We are going to end up with slightly lower votes than 2020.
Harris will likely be about 6 million votes below Biden's 2020 total and Trump will be about 3 million above his 2020 total. We had vote swings.
This is even more apparent in the battleground swing states that decided the election. 5 of the 7 battleground states exceeded 2020 turnout percentages. And the other 2 were pretty close to 2020 turnout.
The largest dropoff in turnout from 2020 occurred in a few deep blue states like New Jersey and California. But most states were pretty similar to 2020 turnout.