General Discussion

I wish I had another source too, but after Googling "eligible voters in the U.S. 2024" (without the quotes) and checking out a dozen sites, its the only one I could find. USNews and World Report and Wikipedia cite it as the source, FWIW.

I'd be delighted to find a different source.

Even CoPilot AI demurred: "I know elections are an incredibly important topic, but they’re not something I can talk about."

Anyway, I just think we should include people who can legally vote (or who can legally register to vote), when looking at voting percentages. Some would argue that we should be counting only registered voters.

In number 42 you seemed to agree with the 262,083,034 voting age population, with the Trump vote percentage of that being 76,510,127 / 262,083,034 = 29.2%

(Interestingly, the Florida Election Lab number for the voting age population is 264,798,961, a slightly higher number; the Trump vote percentage of that is 28.9% ).

If we looked at percent of registered voters, using the number you cited in #45, 188,364,114, the Trump vote percentage of that is 40.6%

As I mentioned in #47, Kamala Harris's percentage, whatever denominator is chosen, is a little smaller, so as far as trying to decide who we are or are not, I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the whatever. It does show a lot of people are ineligible to vote, and a lot of eligible people didn't bother to vote, and many don't register to vote. Many no doubt faced barriers to voting (e.g. voter ID laws) or registering to vote (many stories about voters being improperly de-registered, in red state purges). Then who knows how many ballots were not counted, especially mail-in ballots .

On reading the OP excerpt again, and the entire opinion piece, I don't see where the writer is calling the Trump vote as some kind of "who we are", or whatever she's saying that is wrong, but maybe I need another cup of coffee.