Most of the extra ballots that were for Trump were “President only” ballots. That is, none of the other candidates were marked off.
So that tells me what?
A lot of individual votes only had Trump marked and nothing else. So he had the numbers.
I don’t think they were Republicans but they were marked for Trump. They didn’t have information on them about any other candidates of any party.
As to why Harris lost? Black, woman, 3 months lead time, riding on fumes from a guy who passed on the torch that was going to lose.
She did better than I expected tbh. But no, she wasn’t going to win.