 Add to that tally large numbers of active duty military in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Exit polls show that Trump won 61 percent of the veteran vote in 2016 and only 54 percent in 2020. That seven-point drop mattered in states where he lost by the narrowest of margins, 81,000 votes in the Keystone State, that's Pennsylvania, 34,000 votes in the Silver State, that's Nevada, 155,000 votes in Michigan, and only 21,000 in Wisconsin.