Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.

Ryan Grim Jan 15, 2025

“From 2020 to 2024, Democrats saw a staggering dropoff in support at the presidential level, with some 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden staying home (or not mailing in their ballots) in 2024. Now, a new survey conducted by YouGov suggests Biden’s support for Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza played a surprisingly large role in the choice of those previous Biden supporters not to vote.”

  • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    10 hours ago

    No shit. She basically wishy-washed most of her policies until the last few weeks. Too little, too late.

    I’ll never get over the fact that searches for “Did Biden Drop Out” increased by a massive amount on election day.

    • Victoria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      21·
      7 hours ago

      The article shows relative interest for the queried time period. For all they know, a week before the election one person searched for it and on election day 10 people did. The graph as is has no significance at all.

      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Yet she lost. We lost. It’s not insignificant. If there was a non-zero number of people who were unaware that Biden was out, our side failed.

        He should have kept his promise to be a one term president. Hubris and bad advice from the inside failed us. Stop making excuses for a failed attempt.

        Let’s properly fix this. We’re destined to lose again if we do not.