Record Voter Turnout Reveals the Biggest Winner of 2020

We had the largest turnout in American history — 145 million votes — Donald J. Trump got more votes than any presidential candidate in history, except for Joe Biden. This election broke another record by being the most negative since the American Civil War where red states got redder and blue states got bluer.

So did this polarization lead to the higher turnout?

TIME columnist Olivia B. Waxman and USA Today columnist Michael P. McDonald think so, but political scientists Shanto Iyengar of Stanford and Stephen…