Sorry, Trump Didn't "Lose by 8 Million Votes"
There Aren't That Many Votes in the Electoral College
Whether you hate or love Trump, saying Trump "lost by 8 million votes" just demonstrates ignorance of the electoral college system. By that same logic, Trump also "lost" in 2016. The truth is that Trump lost the key states of Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by a collective sum of 43,000 votes, with Pennsylvania being worth 20, and Georgia and Michigan each 16. If Trump had won these states, he would have come in at 284 - 254 instead of 252-306. The popular vote disadvantage, which is an electoral irrelevancy, comes from his extreme unpopularity in New York and California. It is not indicative of the rest of the country, and since New York and California are unlikely to go Republican under any circumstances, it is completely unimportant how much any Republican candidate loses those states by.
The popular vote totals are being cited either because of ignorance or, if the individuals in question actually know how our system works which at least some in the media ostensibly do, as a psychological tactic; in any discussion of cheating in 2020, citing the popular vote is a deliberate red herring; no one is alleging cheating in New York or California.
The popular vote is irrelevant: It does not decide the presidency. The truth is that, absent these indictments whose timing is quite suspicious, Trump would be a slight favorite in a 2024 rematch.