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The 2024 US election was heralded by both sides as one of the most crucial contests in recent American history, with Democrats in particular warning of the threat of a Donald Trump return to the White House.
Both sides urged their supporters to come to the polls to save the nation.
In the end turnout was high for a US presidential contest – almost matching the levels of 2020. But at the same time it is estimated that close to 90 million Americans, roughly 36% of the eligible voting age population, did not vote. That number is greater than the number of people who voted for either Trump or his opponent, the Democrat Kamala Harris.
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