- Searches for ‘Change My Vote’ have spiked in states won by Donald Trump
- The volume of searches for vote changing hit 100 on Google Search on Election Day morning and have hit that number again since
- Iowa generated the largest amount of searches for vote changing
In what some may perceive to be a degree of buyer’s remorse, people in states won by Donald Trump in last week’s Presidential election have been searching for ‘How to change my vote’ in their droves.
Trump comprehensively defeated Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, on November 5’s election, winning both the electoral college and the popular vote (Trump lost the popular vote in both 2020 and 2016). However, it would appear a considerable amount of red state voters aren’t so sure about their choice for President, as Google trends seems to suggest from this past week.
According to the data, searches for ‘how to change my vote’ reached 100 on Google’s scale on 7am of Election Day. A lot fewer people were searching for the term the following day, before it spiked to 100 again on November 7.
Google search trends are measured on a scale of 0-100, so hitting 100 suggests the concern was significant in these states, with most searches occuring in Iowa, a state Trump won, with Des Moines-Ames, Cedar Rapids-Waterlook-Iowa City and Dubuque areas specifically searching for the term.
Idaho, Kansas, Alabama and Nebraska all also saw high volumes of searches for ‘how to change my vote’. All four of these states were also won by Trump.
‘How to switch’ was also a popular search term in swing states such as Arizona, Wisconsin and New Mexico. Arizona and Wisconsin were both won by Trump, while the Democrats margin of victory was cut to six points this year from 10 points in 2020’s victorious election.
In addition to these terms, ‘did Joe Biden drop out?’ also peaked in searches during election week, which feels like a concerning search to be trending as Biden pulled out of the election months ago in a story that was widely covered on every major news outlet for days and has been referenced regularly ever since.
Visa website La Vida recorded a 2,300 percent jump in traffic from the US upon the news of Trump’s victory, suggesting a number of Americans are considering moving abroad once the new President is sworn into office in January, 2025.
(h/t Newsweek)
