Det telles fortsatt, men Harris lå under i oppslutning i forhold til 2020 overalt, inklusive i klare, blå delstater. USA ville ikke ha en kvinne med minoritetsbakgrunn som president. Enig i at kritikken fra Hersh mot Walz er merkelig, han hadde mye å tilføre.
Nå må man innse at USA ville ha Trump og det han står for, mens Demokratene får finne ut av hva de ønsker å stå for. Det er som når Ap forsøker å kjøre høyrepolitikk, da velger folk Høyre.
Keir Starmers sjefsstrateg var en kort tur innom hos The Rest is Politics i går. "Jeg så milliardærer, popstjerner, filmstjerner og toppolitikere, men hvor ble det av arbeiderne som partiet skal representere? Jo, de var hos Trump fordi Demokratene har sluttet å henvende seg til dem på en måte de forstår."
Scaramucci pekte på "identitetspolitikkens død". Han fortalte om en bekjent som var så sint at det stod røyk ut av hodet på henne. Hennes ti år gamle sønn var blitt sendt hjem fra skolen, og fra administrasjonen kom det bekymringsmelding om at sønnen gjentatte ganger hadde brukt pronomen feil i klassen, om en klassekamerat. "Hun var så sint at hun hadde vansker med å fortelle om hendelsen."
Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders, en kjent senator som i flere tiår holdt hus godt til venstre i det demokratiske parti men som nå stilte som uavhengig, slaktet demokratenes valgresultat onsdag kveld:
– Det bør ikke komme som noen stor overraskelse at det demokratiske parti, som har forlatt arbeiderklassen, nå innser at arbeiderklassen har forlatt dem. Først den hvite arbeiderklassen, og nå de latinamerikanske og svarte arbeiderklassene. Der demokratene forsvarer status quo, er det amerikanske folket sinte og vil ha forandring. Og det har de rett i.
Opptellingen som fortsetter:
We are not missing 15 million voters who didn't show up. I have no idea why outlets are repeating that. What IS true is you currently have a ~15 million difference between Biden 2020 popular vote and Harris 2024 popular vote because many large states have not finished counting and are only reporting partial totals. (By the way in the time it took me to collect this data it dropped to 13 million, because again, the numbers will keep going up).
California accounts for close to 8 million of your missing votes, with about 9 million counted of 50% reported. This would suggest they'll have about 9 million more votes coming in, split between Harris and Trump, with preference to Harris.
This is not to say it's all reporting. While the largest variances exist in "unfinished" states, the majority are all closed, and there is no avoiding that Harris underperformed in pretty much ALL of them. Hilariously, not Wisconsin.
Harris undershot Biden by 980K in NY, by 511K in NJ, and 620K in Florida. These changed nothing electorally, but partially explain the weak popular vote.
The collective 3rd party spoilers successfully swung Michigan for Trump. Harris underperformed Biden by 89K, which aligns almost exactly with the 3rd party vote count of Stein, Kennedy, and Insert Libertarian Here combined.
Taegan Goddard, fra Political Wire:
After last night, it became clear it was a mistake to dismiss Trump’s true political strength. He will win the 2024 election with at least 51% of the popular vote.
His win will not be the result of a constitutional quirk. It was not even the result of a bad campaign by Kamala Harris. His victory was so broad based I’m not sure any Democrat could have beaten him last night.
There’s a brutal clarity in this result.
The majority of Americans are not concerned with Trump’s blatant racism or sexism. They are not concerned with his vows of retribution on his political enemies. They are not concerned with warnings of “fascism” by his former top aides. They are not concerned with his extensive criminal and fraudulent behavior.
If there’s a takeaway from this election, it’s that this is who we are.
Not all of us, to be sure. But it makes clear what the rest of us are up against.