our party isn't at fault here. Nor is our candidate, or our President.

For forcing Biden out.

Biden appointed this traitor who sat on his hands for TWO years before investigating Trump. He is totally complicit.

100%!

Pin everything he does on the gop senators and reps locally and regionally. They can't be left to go back and hide from what they support. Take back those seats for some bit of control.

not going to order it.

I have a media blackout for the time being, and maybe longer.

I was so angry of their double standard in this election where they held Kamala to a much higher standard than her opponent, which she actually exceeded, but they still were critical.

I am so furious and disappointed at the blatant sexism and misogynist attitudes that are so prevalent in our country.

If the FBI or the NSA already knows about something, they will investigate.

They’re not going to fight it or investigate it or anything. We lost.

Because Democrats didn’t come out to vote.

But overall, how we got to this point, is because of their STOP AT NOTHING attitude about gaining and wielding power. They did what it took to win the game.

We played by the so-called “rules” and it got us nowhere.

Trump will have about the same vote totals as he did in 2020. We had to know that he isn't able to expand his base so we had to know the target to win this election. Trump will get 74 million votes when its all said and done and thats what he got in 2020. Truly disappointed in the fact that democrats stayed at home. Still trying to wrap my head around a democrat that voted for biden in 2020 and decided not to vote at all in 2024. I hope we can get to the bottom of this and figure it out before 2028.

As I wrote in another thread, it's not 5M+ "Democrats" that didn't show up, it's 5M+ "Biden Voters". The President built a large coalition and motivated independents to come out and vote for him. They weren't party loyalists that stayed home, they were swing voters.

There is no point denying it. COVID and nationwide mail-in ballots were huge factors in the 2020 numbers for Biden.

Was that it wasn't "Democrats" who stayed home, it was swing voters, independents and never Trump Republicans. The 81M person Biden coalition was the largest in this countries history and Harris wasn't able to recreate it.

We need to wait for more data before making conclusions about who showed up and how they voted

All the polling for months in swing states had us up 2-3 points. All the polling showed nationally we were up 3-4 percent. We lost those swing states and popular vote it seems

We had dem enthusiasm out the roof. Past elections had dems over performing.

I cant believe it is 5 million biden only voters that failed to show

Now suddenly with trump on ticket we underperform?

Something doesn’t add up.

I hope the dems are looking at this or facism is already here.

In NH we voted for Harris but we lost the whole state government.

We are now a red state, with FreeStaters who worked to install another republican governor - we'll not only see Project 2025 but Project 2025 on steroids. She will defund women's health, sell our public education, give more tax cuts for the corporations, allow out-of-state trash companies to pollute our waters, and more.

All they had to do was tick every box in one column - that's all we asked.
And we voted Blue at the top and left the rest to go Red.
I blame the Dems.

as a young person you expected to vote in every damn election. And if you cared about the issues, you voted a "straight ticket".
Too many people have too little knowledge about what the two parties stand for.
And in the case of Trump, it's pretty obvious what you would get if he won a second time. We'll be finding out soon enough.

Other than losing a loved one, this has hit me harder than anything in a long time.
Christ, we lived through 4 years of this monster. Ignorance, selfishness, racism and misogyny ruled on Tuesday.

Someone needs to remind him that until he puts his hand on the

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Bible, he is a citizen who has no power. The honorific "President-elect" conveys with it no powers in and of itself.

The peaceful transfer of power -- which he refused to take part in after losing the 2000 election -- has some administrative traditions designed to ensure the new president can hit the ground running. The only one he will focus on will be his security briefings, the contents of which he'll auction off to one of America's sworn enemies -- Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Elon Musk .

Other than that, his attention will be on how to grift off his win.

ie Gov, Lt Gov, AG, etc. Many high-level races.

Including gaining control again over the legislature.

And it just isn't true.

That's the only way we get better, with a reckoning for what went wrong.

Winning has to be our sole focus going forward. The best candidate for the job isn't the one who can do the job the best, but the one who can win, that has to be the mentality going forward. And that's not to say Harris wasn't our best chance to win, given the circumstances, I think she was, but I don't think that is always our focus.

They did nothing wrong other than being the party in power in a year that has seen incumbent after incumbent voted out worldwide.

https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/383208/donald-trump-victory-kamala-harris-global-trend-incumbents


President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election was powered by a remarkably consistent nationwide trend of voters turning against the Democratic ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris performed worse than President Joe Biden did in 2020 nearly everywhere: in big cities and rural areas, in blue states and red ones.

Most of the conventional explanations for why a campaign fails — things like messaging choices, or whether candidates campaigned enough in the right places — cannot account for such a sweeping shift. Such factors matter on the margins and among specific demographic groups, but Harris received a decisive, across-the-board rebuke.

To explain what truly happened, we need to look at global trends as a point of comparison. And when we do, a clear picture emerges: What happened on Tuesday is part of a worldwide wave of anti-incumbent sentiment.

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It's something that deserves a wider and less transient audience.

Based on who supports T****, it's pretty obvious there are millions with some sort of grievance out there.

This is the kind of insanity you get when the problems are too big and complex to solve. We as a planet have many of those.

The blame game has begun. 2 days ago, these same people were saying that Harris/Walz had run a flawless campaign and praising the DNC.

Now they've done a 180.

We cannot let the media get away with this, with once again shifting blame. They normalized It (T*ump), they ran down Biden/Harris every step of the way.

Hatred, fear, misogyny and media manipulation is to blame.

If people don't want: reproductive freedom, affordable health insurance for those who lose their jobs or with pre-existing conditions, clean air, clean water, protected wildlife and forests and wetlands and coastline, labor laws that keep workers from being endangered slaves, regulations on industries that keep our food and drugs safe, protected social security and medicare/medicaid, a world in which our enemies don't gain advantage over us and attack our allies....and so forth and so on...

You can't make them vote for it. They chose fascism, incompetence, kleptocracy--gladly and willingly. I am done.

BECAUSE THE ONLY group that would investigate IS Democrats.

Idk how the hell it’s gonna be investigated
Cuz it’s all kumbayaaaaaaaah!
Congrats
Come to the WH
Democracy….

The vote was manipulated to give the desired result.

No one is going to. Where is Marc Elias? Where are the discussions about record turn out but 15
Million votes missing. Oh well… it’s nothing to worry about. We were already taken over and too stupid to understand.

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We’re not the Republicans who shouted “stolen election!” with zero evidence. And I suspect no evidence will be forthcoming. The internal polls apparent;y showed Harris in deep trouble up to a few weeks ago when the MSG rally hit and some of the late deciders were breaking for Harris. But it wasn’t enough. We also know that Hispanic and college-aged men broke big time for Trump and that hurt us tremendously.

we did wrong. He was talking about it the past few weeks. I think we did the best we could.

I don't understand how we lost in almost everything. It just doesn't make sense.

And this whole "blame the Democrats" routine is getting really old. It is just another diversionary tactic used and encouraged by the right. We had good candidates who ran excellent campaigns.

I don't think it's what you mean to say ... but maybe I'm wrong.

I just don't think there will be an investigation.

Dems are too nice.

After the first Nazi experiment with Trump, not
enough apparatus was put in place to game the
vote against Biden.

But they learned their lesson. Over the next four
years they set up the win for 2024. Republican
officials in red states set up purges, reduced
polling sites for blue areas, made voting by mail
way more difficult, and filed lawsuits and made
direct threats regarding voter registration.

Certain swing states with red legislatures alsoo
made voting more difficult.

And then came the Russians calling in bomb
threats and getting sites shut down.

Then came the billionaires with huge money
efforts, particularly in adviertising and social
media propaganda and misinformation.

And they found a way to divide certain populations,
who should be allies, against each other.

Attacking Haitians as migrants and not Latinos
made Latinos think they were safe, and they carry
a certain amount of bigotry against Black people
anyway. I know this from experience.

I probably didn't cover it all, but you get the gist.

In a way, it's almost calming. There is no more truth to be uncovered. If it could be uncovered...no one is even interested in finding it. Any bull will do. I just have to hang in the here and now, and do what I can to help someone else do life.

He seems to have lost the thread.

Which is how we got stuck with Jim Comey, who screwed over Hillary. Bipartisanship has consequences.

Dems are SO hinged on being the "better than that" party, they will never get dirty and fight like they do.

We're just the ones who have to suffer the consequences.

I was working the election in rural Texas and we had so many first time voters that came in and voted, while I don’t know for sure how they were voting they would often ask is this where I come to vote for Republicans. Every elderly white voter in the county were dragged into to vote by family members who would need election workers assistance so I was forced to see their selections. I was saddened and shocked how motivated they were to come in and vote for a rapist.
I naively thought Americans were better than that.

And ironically it was the immigrants ( Latinos and Arabs) that got him the vote in WI. For the central American latinos they just voted for the exact thing they were running from. Makes me think they did the same thing in the country they ran from.

And if this is allowed to continue and not be investigated, I fear that it will be the last election we have any chance of winning for a long, long time. In the meantime, irreparable damage will be caused to the environment, to the world's democracies, to immigrants, gay/trans people, women, and actually everyone's rights. I sure hope that all of this isn't swept under the rug as it has been so many times in the past.

America is full of so many small, mean, and ugly people.

Everyone is sorted into homogenious groups. Our campaign finance system means people who live in very segregated communities ate running campaigns. The GOP blatantly lies and are willing to use crime and dirty tricks. On our side belief is data analysis and micro targeting hurt us in 16 and 24. No one running these campaigns know what life is like in the projects or rural trailer parks. Reagan's and other GOP tax adjustments have hollowed out America ontop of the 60 years hollowing most precints ever since LBJ & Nixon raided the Social Security Trust fund to pay for the Vietnam war. That intensified wvee since Reagan.