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He didn't "handily win" he won by 1-2 points in the swing states.
It tracks with an anti-incumbent sentiment, people are not happy with inflation so they voted against the incumbent, they're still not happy and still voting against the incumbent.
And he only won because a few million people who voted in 2020 sat on their asses instead of voting this time.
Sounds like First-past-the-post voting doesn't accurately represent the people with its inherent two party system. Are you working towards giving these people representation in your state by pushing for electoral reform?
That fight is dead, the current fight is "will we ever have federal elections again"
But will you vote for (D) Nikki Haley in 2028?
It seems like supporting a genocide depresses turnout. Democratic consultants, take note.
Democrat politicians have already decided "DEI" was the problem. Good luck getting those spineless cowards something resembling a moral framwork.
Uh, are you confusing Republicans, the ones currently in power, with Democrats or something?
No, largely the "centrist" democrats that are doing this as a response to republicans embracing post truth death cultism. The progressive wing is mostly pushing back but I've seen at least two sniveling dems say some absolutely vile, trumpist shit.
no they are pointing out the Dems are doing literally anything to shift the blame from the party. I have seen so fucking many people argue that the dems should just drop all the trans issues and let the republicans win on it. Others blaming leftists for pointing out the problems with Harris.
The only notes they pay any attention to are Federal Reserve Notes.
"yeah because they supported genocide I didn't primary them and instead let the guy who supports 2 genocides including the same one win"
Wow fuckin clowns
he won the popualar vote despite all the EVERYTHING
That tracks with the reality that half of America really likes the guy.
America is the country that had almost 70% of Republicans polling that Nixon shouldn't resign the day before congress decided to impeach.
He won. It is unfortunate, but not unsurprising or requiring a leap of faith, and it has all evidence supporting it, factually.
Now we need to take that reality and address it and the root causes--rather than fighting facts with preferred fantasy like the right wing has done at every opportunity.
I know that Republicans spent 2020 looking for bamboo in ballots, but haven't been able to find even hand recounts in swing states. I think Democrats are so invested in being "good losers" that there has not been enough investigation into an election where Republicans certainly cheated as much as they were able to.
Apparently doing the "every accusation is a confession" projection routine years ago with the brazen 2020 election conspiracies has completely disarmed the democrats' ability to do anything. They have become the political version of the Washington Generals (the basketball team who's job it is to make things interesting for the audience by losing to the Harlem Globetrotters).
It's not half of America, it's half of half of eligible voters, and even some of them were holding their nose to do it.
If the DNC was even remotely capable of caring about everyday people they could have easily won. They need to crawl out of the corporate pockets they've been living in and actually try to fix things if they don't want to go the way of the Whigs.
Wrong. Polls of all adults, registration be damned, is nearly 1:1 with what we saw at the polls.
Here's a yougov poll from like a week ago: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econtoplines_c1AfT3R.pdf
There was no mandate. In 2024, every incumbent party in every liberal democracy worldwide lost ground because of inflation concerns.