Its not 15 million less voters. You are comparing apples and oranges. At this point in 2020, there were still another 10 million votes to roll in. California alone will add another 5-6 million votes.The 15 million less voters has been tough for me to wrap my head around. I thought she ran an energetic campaign and the party embraced her.
Further, I saw hundreds of posts from Republicans who were voting against Trump because they see what type of person he is, not to mention women pissed about Roe. I was naively expecting a blowout and didn't even consider this result a possibility.
My kids go to a Christian school, so we are one of the few families not voting for Trump. I told them that I truly hope he's a good president and my fears are unwarranted. There's nothing in his history that would indicate that I am, though.
OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS - POTUS | TRUMP ELECTED 47th President
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stankeylegjones
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Super, you are continuing to demonstrate an inability to understand/see things through their lens. This disconnect is a major reason why she lost. Chalking it up to "she's a woman and that is why she lost," is lazy-think.
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Harris got it because she was Biden’s VP. Do you feel Dems should’ve run a second nationwide primary in 4-6 weeks or have delegates decide at a contested convention?
As far as I know, none of the other high profile Dems mentioned (or leaked) that they wanted the spot.
Remember the situation- The new candidate will have a 3 month campaign, having raised no money and assembled no campaign infrastructure. Their opponent is up significantly in the polls and just survived an assassination attempt on live television. If you had Presidential aspirations, would you want to use your turn working from that starting point?
The Michael Deaver campaign TV arrangements in ‘81-‘84 were BRILLIANT!
Deaver and Reagan’s advance teams were GREAT at giving the networks incredible video and still photo backdrops. Audio was high quality.
Deaver and team gave the media what they wanted - easy to use video/pictures of picturesque scenes.
Reagan was the kindly, friendly, avuncular grandfather who did “manly” work on his California “ranch.”
Paul Volcker (Carter appointee) had had to send rates so high to break inflation that 7.1% unemployment, 4.3% inflation, and 9% fed discount rate were considered GREAT in 1984…..Morning in America!
Reagan was credited with breaking inflation (he’d wanted to fire Volcker during the 1982 recession) and growing the economy (7+% unemployment).
A similarity between 1984 and 2024 - the media feared Reagan’s staff and they fear Trump.
Hell no!
I’m really impressed with how that huge Foxconn manufacturing facility in rural Wisconsin is doing.
Trump really brought home the jobs there!
And, ‘76 and ‘80……unfortunately, not applicable in 1984 (Somehow in ‘84 7.1% unemployment, 4.3% inflation, 9% fed discount rate were GREAT! MORNING IN AMERICA numbers and in 2024, 4.1% unemployment, 2.1% inflation, and 5% fed discount rate were “WORST ECONOMY EVER!”).
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I wouldn't.
Let Israel and the whole Middle East figure it out. The longer we intervene the longer it lingers
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aGDevil2k
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She held percentages in cities and most
Turnout tanked across the board
Trump's votes went down
Hers went down by 15 million!!!!
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Oh you beat me to it
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We're 40+ years into manufacturing losses, a small rebound from a previous low doesn't mean much in the grand scheme.
In many ways, Trump's connection to the working class is less about actual policies or actions and more that he recognizes them in the way they see themselves, as "the backbone of the American economy". He gives them what they consider their "proper due" and they respond well to it.
Biden's first term is actually pretty similar to Reagan's.
The key difference is that Reagan inherited 13.5% inflation from Carter, whereas Biden inherited 1.23% inflation from Trump. So the voters blamed Biden for inflation and praised Reagan. That distinction makes sense and is consistent with the political rule I cited above.
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Trump’s total will be higher than 2020. California alone should more than makeup the current difference. With 54% of votes counted, he has 3.9 million votes there
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I know that and you know that...but do you think the average American, much less the average working class American, really understands tariffs in any meaningful way?
I do not. Tariffs are a symbol to the working class that he's going to fight against China who took their jobs. My hunch is that he'll end up enacting a few, fairly-minimal tariffs directed at China to fulfill his promise and so that he can't be said to have lied and he'll let it go. There are certainly those in Trump's orbit and those in Congress who know what significant tariffs would do to the economy and so I'm guessing they'll largely direct him away from anything beyond some symbolic ones.
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That's shameful.
And also not true
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There it is. He speaks to them in a way that’s heavy with hate and fear for other people and extraordinarily light on details. When Dems start doing that, we’re well on the way to the end of the line.