It WAS lower turnout for the Democrats. By a lot. But that doesn't explain the numbers.

Based purely on common sense, no way did Trump get fewer votes this time around (71 vs. 74). That means they must have increased the electronic vote flipping this time around. But you can only do that in certain places and to a small degree. A hand count will reveal electronic fraud like this, so this system of cheating has hard limits if you want to avoid detection. You can only pump it up in places where hand counts are expensive and difficult to qualify for.

My guess is Trump legitimately got around 80 million votes this time, so if true that means they were able to swap about 9 million to Harris. (That assumes they didn't e-swap any in 2020, which is unlikely but we'll go with it for the moment.)

That pushes her numbers down to around 58 million. And that was the best they could do, because they were prevented in many places from bringing in pallets of fake ballots like they did in 2020 when the electronic rigging was insufficient. They almost certainly stuffed the mail in ballot areas like New York and the Left Coast, but nothing like what they were able to pull off last time.

Overall, I suspect Harris maybe got, legitimately, around 40 million votes to Trump's 80. 2:1 matches what most people report anecdotally.

So yes, the number is probably that low because nobody was inspired to vote for her. Urban voters and women were just one demographic that said no.