Summary
Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisās defeat, with many votersāoften womenāexpressing doubts about whether āAmerica is ready for a female president.ā
Some said they ācouldnāt see her in the chair,ā or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, āyou donāt see women building skyscrapers.ā Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.
Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.
Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenās administration.
Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpās unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisās campaign efforts.
I want to comment that you nailed so many valid points.
This one, I donāt think I agree that it was a fluke.
Democrats are continuing to let the loudest crybabies take over the room. And then compromise. Conservatives are right on one thing: the message that Kamala put out to their people was, āYou donāt want to vote for a fascist.ā Which doesnāt resonate with them. What they instead saw was a person who was going to keep things the same.
Can a minority run again? Absolutely.
But only stop catering to the status quo and bowing down to companies. Do Bernie Sanders shit.
Fluke probably wasnāt the right word in hindsight. He won and got re-elected decisively. Maybe they consider it a āmistakeā. I donāt know what the right word for it is. However you want to call it, they just will not allow it to happen again.
That is a decades-long flaw in the Democrat party that had little bearing on this election.
Actually, many of them were on social media actively advocating for him because of the authoritarianism. They were pretty open about voting for a convict/dictator/rapist over a
nigā¦uhā¦blackpersonā¦uhāDemocratā.Hereās the problem. When 51% of your voting base is giving very strong signals they donāt want a minority as President and telling you they want things to remain the same, offering up a minority candidate who wants to change everything is not going to win you elections. Doesnāt matter how benevolent their ideas are. The American voters just said they are willing to vote against policies they like simply because they donāt like the person selling it.
In the past 3 Presidential elections, the GOP put up the literal worst candidate in history. In two of those 3 elections, the Democrats put up women. Trump won. The only time he lost was when they put up an old white guy. Then they complained about him being an old white guy. Then, rather than vote for the black woman, they voted for another old white guy. And a whole bunch of people are here saying that we wouldāve won if we just put up an even older white guy with the same policies.
Which is basically the Democrat party as a whole saying that they may not want an old white guy as President, but theyāll sure as hell put a white guy in the White House before a they put a woman there, and certainly not a black one. They tried twice, and voters stayed home. And they stayed home knowing full well what that meant. What does that tell you?
Assuming we have elections again, a minority will not sit in the Oval Office in my lifetime. And if they put one up in 2028, theyāre going to lose just as hard. The American public ā from both parties ā have sent a loud and clear message that they will not put a woman in charge of the US, certainly not a black one. And if you think, especially after 4 more years of the Trump Hate Machine blasting propaganda 24/7, that a minority is going to have a snowballās chance in hell, Iāve got beachfront property on Mars you may be interested in.
Then wonder why you lose again. Outside of his voters and the far left, people donāt want Bernie Sanders shit. We may disagree with them, but thereās more of them then there are of us.
Thanks. So many people here seemingly have never met a real person IRL before
āThey go low, we go highā is a phrase I associate with the Obama era.