The #1 reason, over and above all the others. The RW media machine is a monster of lies and distortion.

Simple really.

Major causes: Ignorance, apathy, laziness, plus racism and misogyny, plus religious cultism. America is not basically what I’ve thought it was my whole life. This election is like a punch to the gut rearranging my sense of what Is the essence of the USA. Those negative elements have always been here, but they have metastasized and sprung forth as a major force to destroy everything. And I don’t see how it’s going to change back. The orange villain is just the facilitator.

Blacks, Hispanics, and other non-white voters.

See: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220001252

Or here for broader distribution:

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disinformation and propaganda?

If you hear the same lies over and over and over x 1000 they can get you to believe anything.

Right wing media dominates. Fox 'news", Newsmax, OANN, EWTN (yes, the catholic channel), Twitter, 4-8chan, and a billion AM/FM radio stations.

They wanted to hurt the “others” and didn’t realize that we are all in the same pot.

to see a poll with those exact same choices, but "what was the number one issue that DID NOT cause Trump/GOP to win.

I suspect it's the same thing for half of DU.

For some it was surely misogyny or racism, for others, they bought into the propaganda/media failure that the economy sucked. Not sure what purpose it serves to seek to oversimplify the reasons Harris lost.

Is number one
It's number 2
It's number 3.

With well funded think tanks, cultivating religious wackos, brainwashing people with propaganda radio and TV. This is about the interests of the extremely wealthy, and their use any issue they can find to whip up ordinary rubes to vote against their own interests.

The issue is wealth and power for the wealthiest and most powerful.

The reason he "won" is religious fanaticism. The right wing religious extremists
think the bible myths somehow predict and require his being in the white house.
The unraveling of Roe is what codified this.

And we heard it over and over and over again, 2024 is not 2016. That won't happen again. It's totally different. Apples and oranges. Blue wave.

We love to repeat history because we refuse to admit to patterns.

The way they are acting now is just as awful.

and many more.

"Home of the brave...." my ass.

It worked in 20s Italy, 30s Germany, 70's Chile, and many more. Erect Bogeymen and the people will beg for a REAL Man to wield his sword to chase them away.

That’s what warped all the issues above into something they aren’t. And there’s no way to fight it. You can’t stop people from selecting the news they want to hear and that shit is ubiquitous.

Brexit style voting. A lot of people thought they were "safe" doing a protest vote for Brexit because they thought they would lose, but wanted to make it close. They f*ed up.
Likewise, people voted for tsf thinking Kamala would win, but wanted to make it close. They are about to enter the FO stage.

That just tells me again that Democrats us seem to not be recognizing the massive amount of propaganda that Republicans, the right wing push, and all of these people who voted for Trump all see the world differently because of that misinformation. We have to correct that problem we could give out million dollars to everybody in United States, but if the Republicans are pushing propaganda that that million dollars will kill them then they won’t take it. Misinformation disinformation that is the number one reason why we lost this election.

To your list, I would only add greed and, in some cases, repressed sadism.

...assholes.

The F***in media.

They gave tRUMP unpaided free advertising.

Refused to acknowledge Biden/Harris accomplishments.

Ignored the birder flu that wiped out entire flocks of chickens that raised the price of eggs and chicken.

Waited until 6 weeks before the election to talk about how well the economy was doing under Biden/Harris.

What drove this loss is targeted disinformation that the right wing is very good at. They flooded the social media of young and disaffected folks with a barrage of lies.
We instead relied on facts and policies. That does not work. Until we dismantle the rw propaganda machine or build one of our own to counter it we will never win the presidential elections again and likely stay in the minority in congress.

.... of course, intervention by any and all means possible direct by the GOP or at least ignored by the GOP as long as they win.

The standard state of politics since 2000.

If the GOP wins, it will be a "perfect" election. The Democrats will grumble a little and then move ahead without looking back. It seems that has been our designated role in politics since 2000.

If the Democrats win, the GOP first relies on all of the pre-election warnings that the rumors and lies were true. The election IS GOING to be stolen, we told you, and the MSM repeats the rumors and lies. When that doesn't go their way, they turn to the courts. And even when they lose 60 times in the courts. They continue the lies and have persuaded enough cult followers to believe them, so the cycle continues until the next election.

Then, who wins dictates the start of the next cycle.

Without an audit, we will never know what effect voter suppression in all its forms had on the tallies, and then, of course...

was there all along if we listen to people.
It was always the economy, followed closely by immigration.

We campaigned with the Cheneys.

No one wants to talk about the fact that he's received more news coverage than anyone ever has in American history.

He got most of the Christians' votes. 63% of Protestants voted for Trump, and 58% of Catholics.

Pretty much every issue in your poll can be directly linked to this...

What really pisses me off is there were tons of news stories this year and last year about Moscow's plans to flood social media with trolls and bots to sway the election and people still fell for it.

... non existent policies.

Benedict Donald is ***NOT*** going to improve real wages, all of his policies are going to make it worse

Disgust with the establishment on both sides. They are beholden to the same entities at the end of the day. People are tired of the bread and circus bullshit from the establishment and wanted something else again.

Effed us over again… not reporting Trump’s dementia, not reporting kamala’s economic and working class plans, allowing corporations to eff us over with inflated prices

Specifically, Russian propaganda

Presidential elections are referendums on the incumbent's performance. The people who pushed for Biden to step down should have been out there hyping his achievements, not criticizing his debate performance. It signaled a lack of confidence from which the campaign never recovered.

That's all they had on TV here in North Carolina. Basically brown people are criminals and transgender women are going to get you.

Economy
Immigration
Misogyny/ racism big one imo
Effect of 10/7- some Jewish voters lost
Michagan Arab voters nv, psycho vote, green vote etc.
cheating will never know exactly what happened and if it had an effect on the actual outcome because no one’s really investigating it.

I read on X that someone got over 100,000 Amish voters registered to vote in Pennsylvania, who all voted for a psycho. I’m not sure if it’s true or not.

Also Ukraine war of course, oil heating prices are still twice what they were here, and price gouging starting in pandemic.

Never underestimate the power of stupid and evil...

The Machiavellian have been leading the Darwin Award Winners down the Proverbial Primrose Path ever since humanity's existence.

This is it on the most powerful steroids imaginable multiplied by being the only 'Super Power' on the planet in the midst of Russia, China, and North Korea aligning...

Worst movie ever!!