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> Hundreds of millions of American taxpayers are fully behind DOGE.

Exactly how many people do you think there are in the United States?

How many of those are eligible to vote?

Now, of that group, how many voted for Trump, how many voted for Harris, how many voted for someone else, and how many didn't vote for president at all?

Of those subgroups, the one that comes closest to triple digit millions is "didn't vote at all". And it's still 10M short of the 100M mark.

~244.6M eligible voters in 2024. ~89.3M didn't vote at all. ~77.3M voted for Trump. ~75M voted for Harris.

Your phrasing reminds me of Pam Bondi's recent claim that Trump's policies have saved 258 million American lives. She claimed that they saved 2/3 of Americans from imminent death from fentanyl overdose. The claim is farcical on the face of it. Nowhere near 2/3 of Americans were, or are, at risk of a fentanyl overdose. She could have used the more accurate phrasing of "the amount of fentanyl seized or prevented is sufficient to make N million fatal doses" but that's not what was said. Instead she said "saved 258 million lives", which is a completely ridiculous claim that should be ridiculed for the unrealistic hyperbole that it is.

Your claim isn't quite as bad, but it's a similar mishandling of numbers.



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