Lol you believe memes.
Grok knows: No, this graph is not real—or at least, it doesn’t accurately reflect what actually happened during the 2024 presidential election count in Wisconsin.
The image appears to be a fabricated or misleading edit (likely from social media or meme sites like imgflip.com, based on the watermark) showing a vote-count timeline as of early November 4, 2024 (post-Election Day on Nov 5? The dates are inconsistent—Election Day was Nov 5, 2024, so “Nov 4” timing with “6:23 a.m. on Nov 4” doesn’t align properly). It claims 89% counted, ~381k votes outstanding, with Brown and Kenosha counties still reporting, and the lines suggesting Republicans were surging or in a position to win based on remaining votes from those areas.
In reality:
• Wisconsin’s final certified results (from sources like the Wisconsin Elections Commission, AP, NYT, Wikipedia aggregates) show Donald Trump won the state with about 1,697,626 votes (49.6%) to Kamala Harris’s 1,668,229 (48.7%), a margin of ~0.9% or roughly 29k votes.
• Total votes cast were around 3.42–3.43 million, with turnout ~72–77% (high but not matching the graph’s implied totals/percentages exactly at that snapshot).
• Brown County (leans Republican) and Kenosha County (more competitive, but Trump won it by ~4–6 points) did report later in some batches, but the outstanding votes were not overwhelmingly Republican in a way that flipped a massive lead—the race was close throughout, and Trump pulled ahead as more rural/Republican-leaning areas reported, but not in the dramatic stepped “surge” this graph depicts with Republican votes jumping ahead sharply at the end.
• Major outlets like ABC News (which the graph claims as source), FiveThirtyEight, NYT, AP, and others tracked live counts, but no matching graph from Nov 4/early Nov 5 shows this exact scenario with 89% at that time, 381k left specifically from Brown/Kenosha, and the lines curving that way. Edison Research (mentioned in the caption) did provide turnout estimates, but nothing matches this precisely.
This looks like a classic election misinformation graphic—similar to 2020 “stop the steal” style charts—exaggerating or inventing a late Republican batch surge from specific counties to imply fraud or something when the actual count was methodical and Trump did legitimately win narrowly. The “Nov 3” to “Nov 4” timeline with times like 6:00–12:00 also mixes up dates oddly around Election Day.
If this was meant to represent a hypothetical or