How Gary Johnson and Jill Stein helped elect Donald Trump

Michigan (16 electoral votes)

Trump stood 11,837 votes ahead of Clinton, with 96% of the vote in Wednesday evening. The total support for Johnson and Stein was 223,707 votes — almost 20 times more than the margin as of this writing. CNN has not yet projected a victory here.

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If half of Johnson’s supporters and all of Stein’s supporters had voted Clinton, it could have delivered a Democratic win here.

Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes)

Trump stood 68,236 votes ahead of Clinton, with 99% of the vote in Wednesday evening. The total support for Johnson and Stein was 191,565 — almost three times Trump’s margin of victory. CNN projected a Trump victory here.

If half of Johnson’s supporters and all of Stein’s supporters had voted Clinton, it would have flipped the state.

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