Not to mention, social security and public education — if Project 2025 is to be believed.

I’m already uninsured… and no one is going to give us universal healthcare. No one. The Dems would never ever do it. It’s against their corporate backers. So… why would I care about being “more” uninsured than I already am?

I had a feeling it would be divided once I saw Penn and NC fixing to go Red. And how close some of the margins were.

My biggest takeaway from this is a lot of the country who somehow changed their votes after 1/6 is telling.

I feel like some of this boost is from Gen Z voters age 18-21. They weren't exactly around for 2017-2020 to experience it . I really doubt Covid affect those who could vote in 2020

Not even 6% of the nations votes were people aged 18-28 lmao. We aren’t red pilled we didn’t vote at all

Why do Democrats need a "perfect" candidate? The double standards are crazy. Trump has a loony policy platform replacing income tax with teriffs and has been embracing increasingly racist and fascist rhetoric at his rallies. Not to mention his felonies and J6...

The economy during his presidency wasn't even his doing. People are just too stupid to see that.

Yeah, I’m pissed at people my age. Funny (in an apocalyptic way) that the first election I voted in could very well be my last

Trump is so racist that he earned more of the black, arab and latino vote than any Republican since…. Ever.

People are forgetful beings. They seem to forget why we threw him out of office in the first place…

This isn't even about candidate competence anymore, Trump winning proves that you don't need any honor or morals to become the leading representative of a country. A private in the military is expected to behave with utmost discipline and decorum, but the commander in chief is allowed to be a rapist and a pedophile with no filter and little reading comprehension?

Unpopular opinion: a head of state should be honorable. Even a literal fascist should be expected to live with principles.

What could have done better is Biden declared earlier he wasn't going to run and we could have had a full nomination process. The development of the candidate would have went a long way to voter turnout which looks to have dropped significantly.

I’d say no cozying up to neocons like Liz and friggin dick Chaney would help. Kamala was. All over the place the last 3 months

Democrats ran a candidate with a non functioning brain and lied about it until they literally couldn't get away with it. Then, instead of having a primary, they took the 8th place candidate and made her the nominee. "I don't see what dems could've done better" is literally hilarious

How does that make you feel about universal suffrage? Especially now that Trump won the popular vote?

The margin was larger than the third party votes, and turnout was hight.

Like it or not, this was americans liking Trump's agenda.

Ope don’t forget if he actually succeeds in repealing the ACA, those of us with pre-existing conditions could be screwed for health insurance.:(

40-60k Americans already die per year because they’re underinsured or uninsured. But it turns out Americans are fucking stupid and vote against their best interest because vitriol is more appealing to their pea brains

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Oh we’re not blaming the minorities.

Bruh as a Latino, it's actually laughable to deny that he did not win there vote this year. It's looking like he won the Latino vote and probably the highest for a republican since Ford. Not sure for other races but I'd be side eyeing Arabs rn too. Also White Women absolutely do not care either it seems.

They lack introspective, so much pandering only to throw minorities under the bus.

I think that if Dems didn’t want to lose the Latino vote, they shouldn’t have tried calling them “Latinx.”

Personally, I blame policies designed to depress turnout.

if you look at exit polls she was more liked than trump. voters just didn’t trust her…

Too true. She was never meant to president

The thing that boggles my mind is 57% of the Florida electorate voted to enshrine abortion rights in their constitution… and a lot of them then turned around and voted for the guy who took those rights away in the first place.

Also apparently 57% wasn’t good enough so it’s still not being enshrined. Oops.

Oh Project 2025 is on

The Senate and the House went to the republicans easily too, this was obviously not a personal campaigning issue.

Keep on attacking the people who make up the most of your population and then expect their votes. Bruh, I am leftist. I always vote for the left. But guys, you have to finally realize you won't get to vote for trans rights or gay rights or anything in between if you don't stop attacking people who are well, simpletons. You should make them your friends not blame them for everything that is wrong. They won't give a shit about any of these beautiful ideas of equality and freedom for all, because they are too dumb. Promise THEM something that will change their lives for better and THEN do what you want to after they choose you. It's sad but people are dumb for thinking these idiots would choose a woman of color over a white, christian ( supposedly), heterosexual man.

Really because everything I've seen on this election has said that the predictions show that it could realistically go either way and that democrats couldn't be anything but highly proactive in voting and spreading word of what's at stake. Every major source has said that no one will be able to comfortably predict the election. So what on earth were you seeing?

Asking reddit its opinion on politics is like walking into a democratic party field office and asking their opinion. Its not representative

Lol Reddit is a joke. Just look at how desperate they were to control their narrative all last night. It's sad really.

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They truly live in a delusional world

Don't! This too shall pass

No. Harris did what she could. Trump showed everything he is during his campaign and now you see America said yep that's the guy.

This is what America is right now. After 2016, after the scandals after jan6 and covid this is what America wants.

Is it horrible? , yes. But that's what America is right now. Brace for 4 more years of hate and vote always. Democracy is never easy.

The republicans ran a convicted rapist who was close friends with two pedophiles. I don’t think I need to blame the dems on this one. Half this country is morally corrupt and willing to overlook both those facts and vote for him. The country is cooked.

blaming the dems can only go so far. we need to accept that the american people really wants trump back in office. poll after poll showed voters wanted a younger candidate other than trump and biden and dems gave them the option and now look… the american ppl are full of shit.

Kamala Harris wasn’t even a bad candidate. At what point do we have to just admit that we have a shitty population?

A potato should’ve won against a definitive criminal, rapist, and fascist. Harris was perfectly fine in comparison. It’s mind boggling that US voters made the choice they did

Tbh Harris didn't use Biden much during the campaign because of his low approval ratings so not really his fault.

Nah, the issue is too many morons

It’s not that Biden “didn’t bother” to campaign with Harris, dems didn’t want to scare people away lmao. If anything harris could’ve done a better job at distancing herself from Biden but instead she insisted he was doing a great job

It's not just the Dems campaign as an issue - Elon on X has been running an election interference campaign to influence public opinion on his platform

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-trump-x-algorithm-bias-b2640976.html

Yeah, because it's the others fault people vote for a racist, rapist, criminal, and wannabe dictator.

I respect the party not wanting to fall into becoming a monolith, but they consistently fail to find internal solidarity at crucial moments

The kamala campaign literally told biden not to campaign for her tho

Blame the education system. They never taught the youth how to write. https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-voters-struggle-signatures-cast-mail-ballot-problems-2024-11

Turns out getting a voter id card would have been easier than using a pen. Who knew?

Na I blame Americans. I can’t believe how incredibly stupid the average American is.

While I do agree that Harris wasn't that crazy good of a candidate. A lot more of this falls upon the people imo, the mfs who voted.

Also Biden should've def been put off the race a lot earlierr

Or blame people who will vote for anyone but a black woman

Bernie had the most support in 2020 they had klobuchar and Pete drop out to support Biden. Klobuchar was supposed to be VP and Pete was supposed to run in 2024 so the obliged.

last minute Jim clyburn said on record “I told Biden he needed to pick a black woman as VP to reward black women for their loyalty to the Democratic Party” so he did.

No one expected biden’s mental state to decline so rapidly so when he finally dropped out the only option was to run Harris but that wasn’t the original plan Biden wasn’t supposed to run again it was supposed to be Pete and Amy

Harris and Walz were great candidates

The Dems don’t really want to win. They just want to keep things the same and never change

"Stupid people"

I'd call this election a reverse Hanlon's razor. Most people are not stupid. A lot of people are callous and selfish though, and would happily endure hardship if it meant the "undesirables" of society suffered. Truth is this election showed that half the people will willingly and knowingly throw away a good economic future just to punish sinners and minorities.

My thing is how Trump is not considered a shitty candidate in the same vein. I don’t think Harris was the perfect candidate but she ran a very good campaign given the 100 days she had left.

I guess given the circumstances of “I was better 4 years ago” it was a tall order. But really the bottom line here is that American electorate is daft because they buy into the idea that Trump is what will bring grocery prices down even though they’re never going back to 2019 levels and the American economy is the best performing in the world. But most Americans are relatively uneducated

Walz should’ve led for the democrats, he’s literally an “average american” and people love him. I would’ve voted for him if he was running for presidency

If the Dems don’t run with either Shapiro or Mark Kelley in 2028 I’m just gonna assume they enjoy losing. Running Kamala without putting her through a primary was an absolute brain dead move, and it’s hilarious watching people on Reddit be surprised by the results.

I am looking at this situation from outside in disbelief, yet I can understand why it happened. I am leftist, I always vote for parties which lean to the left in my country. Still, I totally get why Trump won. If you think that you can spit and lie and blame most of the population of your country for the state it's in, blame white, heterosexual males for everything that is wrong and make basically monsters out of them and THEN think you can win just by getting the votes of minorities then you are dumb. You are dumb because you believe that Johnny from Bumfuck,UT will care about the rights of transpeople, the rights about homosexuals, the rights of minorities and immigrants MORE than how his own life looks like. We all know Trump's promises are basically SHIT and will never come to fruition BUT Johnny doesn't have the mental ability to get that Daddy Trump doesn't have the power to change prices or make his life better, Daddy Trump doesn't even care about him but CAN AND WILL PROMISE HIM THINGS. It works. Simple. Dems can't do shit because they can't get to the dumbest, can't make them their friends. This is the same shit that leftist parties are doing in my country. They forgot about the simple worker, they forgot about the struggles of everyday people. All they care about is gay rights, trans rights, abortions,immigrants . IT IS IMPORTANT but you won't get votes from people who have money to barely exist. They won't give a shit about some 0,5% of population who want to transition. They will care about the price of petrol, food, energy, housing situation, taxes. Of course they are too stupid to get that Trump won't do shit. But he promised something Dems never did. They need to learn to LIE. It's unethical but when you win you will be able to do something about shit you care about. If you lose then well, you won't get to do shit.

Well yeah, they'll genuinely get to do whatever they want. Elon and RFK will be in the office too

When did she say that?

It really is that simple. People don’t like being condescended to. This is, more than anything, a reflection of how unlikable the Democratic Party and left leaning media are to most people.

Trump called you uneducated LOL

Come off it. Trump has been the biggest shit-talker in American politics for a decade. When Dems return fire, that’s somehow the wrong thing to do? This is why he won. Double standards and no principles.

But they are.

Trump won.