# Where did the 16 million Democratic votes go?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-16-million-democratic-votes-go/1009786 "2024-11-06T14:01:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-16-million-democratic-votes-go/1009786/179 "2024-11-14T20:41:15Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
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> The first round of checks was in March of 2020, right as the pandemic was shifting into high gear. **By the time November rolled around, those checks were long forgotten.**

I doubt that this is true (my bolding). TikTok is chock-full of 2024 posts of people saying they’re voting for Trump because he will “gimme my stimmy”. In October 2023 rap star “Sexxy Red” said

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> I like Trump … they support him in the hood.” … once he started getting Black people out of jail and giving people their free money? Oh, baby, we love Trump. We need to get him back in office"

The “stimmy” (apparently that’s the way it’s spelled) was mentioned all over social media this year. People connected it with Trump, and, apparently, assumed that a vote for Trump equals a new check arriving.

Not true, but it seems to have been widely-believed. Here are a few sources mentioning “stimmys”:

[https://www.tiktok.com/discover/give-me-another-stimulus-check](https://www.tiktok.com/discover/give-me-another-stimulus-check)

> **[Unpacking Sexyy Red voting for Kamala Harris after praising Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/news/sexyy-red-votes-kamala-harris-170704500.html)**
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> “I think this shows how the VP’s closing message is resonating with late deciders,” political commentator Reecie Colbert told theGrio. \[…\]

> **[Joy Reid Says Trump’s Lack of Aging Reflects Poor Management of COVID: ‘He...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joy-reid-says-trump-lack-192106251.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFix03smeWO86uA_NmOQFumBOg5HItoag44080t13R3z5aVm9WrEjiL1VNCYGZCouplKApxGNZjgNa3-PCwdecb9E-qVbM-CusaknjcNKjgAs0UlEhfuQWZC_bzgVyJhYVYltbRvMYUlWEc16MdX47wf14dHZGS4j2hxe8py95tC)**
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> “You did so poorly at managing your sole crisis,” the MSNBC panelist says of the former president The post Joy Reid Says Trump’s Lack of Aging Reflects Poor Management of COVID: ‘He Was Playing Golf the Whole Time’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.

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