Originally Posted by
MountainRaven
Approximately 61.4% of voting age Americans reported voting in 2016. That means that about 30% of the voting age American public vote for left-leaning policies. And 70% either oppose them or are apathetic to them. About 128.8 million people voted for either Trump or Hillary in 2016, of an estimated population of 323.4 million people, which means that only about 40% of the US (including those ineligible to vote) voted for one or the other, placing the actual percentage of Americans who support the left at around 20%, meaning that 80% of all Americans didn't vote for left-leaning candidates.
Neither of these numbers are anywhere near 50%.
(Of course that also means that about 70% of voting aged Americans didn't vote for Trump and about 80% of all Americans didn't vote for Trump, either.)