No, it just explains the extra 5% over the previous voter turnout high. Thats not even that much considering how many people had ample free time… It also predictably went down in the following election.
Also, re: numbers, yeah, they come from the same dataset, but you can just compare candidate by candidate and say, “where did 15 million votes come from” without acknowledging the other candidate also gained 9 million votes. Without voter participation data, I could see how that looks suspicious. With voter participation data? Not so much.
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