President Donald Trump walks along the West Colonnade on the way to the residence for an event to celebrate the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Champion Florida Gators, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

Democrats often work for huge election turnouts in the belief that will help their candidates and their party.

It’s why so many Democrat jurisdictions also are home to massive populations of illegal aliens, who at this point still are counted in the national census. And sometimes, too often, actually vote.

It’s likely why when Mark Zuckerberg was handing out those hundreds of millions of dollars in free cash to local elections officials in the 2020 race, they often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.

But now a report reveals that an increasing number of the voters who stayed home during the 2024 race would have picked President Donald Trump had they voted.

In fact, Trump won landslide proportion victories in the popular vote and in the Electoral College.

The report that undermines apparently Democrat “get-out-the-vote” schemes comes from Politico.

The report cited the work of Pew Research Center, which found that Trump, “benefited from high voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election more than former Vice President Kamala Harris did.”

The report explained, “Trump won a larger percentage of voters who cast ballots last November after skipping the 2020 election, and the poll found roughly equal support between Trump and Harris among eligible voters who stayed home in 2024. That finding bucks a trend in the presidential electorate dating back decades. Historical analysis of presidential elections has indicated Democrats generally have been more popular among nonvoters.”

Politico said during the 2020 race, “nonvoters preferred former President Joe Biden over Trump by 11 points.”

Now, however, comes a new precedent, with Pew results suggesting if “all Americans eligible to vote in 2024 had cast ballots, the overall margin in the popular vote likely would not have been much different.”

Among those who stayed home or weren’t eligible to vote, Trump captured 52% of the support. Kamala Harris got 45%.

Sixty-four percent of the electorate voted in 2024, which was the second-highest figure since 1960, the report said.

Trump’s campaign specifically reached out to young men, and ended up taking 55% of the voters who skipped both the 2020 presidential vote and the 2022 midterms.

Only 41% of that population chose Harris.

“The survey found that 44 percent of nonvoters said they would have voted for Trump had they voted, while 40 percent said they would have supported Harris,” Politico reported.

Trump’s supporters during 2024 also were more racially diverse that those who backed him in 2016 and 2020. He took 48% of the support of Hispanic voters and 15% of black voters, and that was up 7% from the election before.

The survey contacted nearly 9,000 people and ran from Nov. 12-17, 2024. There is a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.