text: Ibbitson’s columns are going downhill. So if millions of illegal voters didn’t vote against Trump in the 2016 election, as he suggests, just how many did vote against him? Ibbitson doesn’t say. Trump didn’t just manufacture the concerns about illegal voters changing the results of elections. Democrat Al Francken may have defeated his Republican opponent in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race thanks to illegal voters. The Washington Post, using data from the Co-operative Congressional Election Study, estimated that 6.4% of non-citizens voted in 2008. Given the demonization of Trump during the election campaign it would seem likely that higher numbers of non-citizens might have voted illegally in 2016 to defeat Trump. In 2014 there were 22.4 million immigrants to the US who were illegal immigrants or legal immigrants who had not become citizens. If ten percent of these people voted against Trump that would be more than two million votes.