2024 US Presidential Election

[Valdney]

curl-6 said:

It's not like 2016 either where Trump won via the quirks of the Electoral College but lost the popular vote.

This time, he won the popular vote too, quite comfortably even. And there were swings to the right across a multitude of states and demographics.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/trump-victory-by-the-numbers/104573034

Furthermore, it's not like 2016 where he was a wildcard, an unknown that people didn't quite know what to expect from. America has already had four years of a Trump presidency; they knew what they were getting into, and they chose it enthusiastically and in droves.

There's no way to sugarcoat it, this is a resounding rejection of the Democrat party.

Hopefully the Dems and the left in general do some serious soul-searching over this and learn to do better, because continuing as they are and dismissing anyone outside their ideological bubble as some sort of evil heathen orcs will only ensure that huge swathes of the population continue to turn their back on them.

Very well said. I am a so called minority person, part of a Latino immigrant community. I came to the US in 2000, became a citizen in 2006 and voted for Obama in 2008. As time went on the democrats just distanced themselves from us. I was probably the first in my circle that turned against them back in 2016, but now I seriously do not know a single friend or relative of mine that has not turned.