It was a close race, as all the pollsters predicted, but Trump won.
What we know from exit polls:
- He made in-roads in his base, turning red districts into deep red districts.
- He won with Latino men, white women, and white men.
- He improved his percentages with Latino women, Black men and Black women.
- He reduced the education gap.
- He won no-college degree voters, and even improved his performance with college degree voters, especially men.
- He improved his performance with young voters, and lost some ground with seniors.
- He owns the rural vote. He improved his percentile of independents and moderates.
- In my state of New Jersey, Harris only won by 5 percent. That’s huge. Trump got some key counties.
- Even though people support abortion, they cared about the economy more.
Trump won across a broad section of the country. Your neighbors voted for Trump. Your cousins voted for Trump. You might have voted for Trump.
Trump won even though he fueled the fire on January 6th, admires fascists like Viktor Orban, created abortion law chaos in the country, and more. But voters prioritized other issues. Them’s the facts. If we want to win elections, we have to listen to the voters.
Voters cared about the economy for themselves and their children. They were turned off by the college protests and DEI measures. They were worried about crime and immigration. They wanted a leader that didn’t discount the needs of men. They wanted to pick a leader with a clear message. Those are legitimate concerns.
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When people get new information which reinforces prior experience, it’s persuasive. Being called ‘garbage’ stacked on top of ‘deplorable’. Harris ran an absolutely dreadful campaign, too much cozy stuff with those who already were committed to her. Vacuous giggles and platitudes in interviews. That and the vision of her having been parachuted in after the attempt to fool us all about Joe’s continued competence collapsed.
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What exactly does “They wanted a leader that didn’t discount the needs of men” mean? I’ve heard over and over from the Biden/Harris admin about the importance of unions (and his support for them), about supporting manufacturing jobs, of providing money to support training for people in the trades as we do for college, just the kinds of things I would think would be helpful for men – and women too, but probably less so.
Ironic that Biden’s awkward effort to address the comic’s insult about Puerto Ricans being garbage came out of the right wing propaganda machine as “Harris thinks all Trump supporters are garbage.” Well, not so much ironic as “exactly what Trump and his elite billionaire supporters decided should happen.”
Also it can’t be said often enough the our incoming president was found by a jury of his peers to have committed rape and slandered his victim repeatedly. Democrats don’t think “all men are bad,” they mean that the bad things the elite billionaires like Musk and Trump do are overlooked.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (though not on the office Slack again), white people are broken.
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