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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s incredibly embarrassing for the Democrats to lose the popular vote. A message that simply didn’t resonate with the voters they needed to get off the couch. Millions of voters who went for Biden in 2020 didn’t bother for Harris in 2024.
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The defeat is so comprehensive that I am not sure any campaign would have turned it around. This isn't 2016 where Clinton
was more popular and essentially ran a bad campaign to lose a few states by a few thousand votes. This was Harris losing ground in almost every area and every demographic. A bad campaign doesn't do that.
I think it's quite simple in the end. People don't like governments that oversee high inflation and a fall in living standards. The Tories got the blame for it here and the Democrats got the blame for it there. The same thing happened in Germany.