First, I've got to say that my numbers were better than the fancy pollsters.
On 10/30/24 (5 days before the election) I posted on this blog: "Prediction: Trump gets both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Guessing 52-48 in the popular vote category and well over 300 in the Electoral College". You can see it for yourself by clicking here. It's at the bottom of that posting.
The Democrats are eating their own about the loss. Blaming everybody in their party, including Biden and Obama for Kamala losing the election.
Now, some of my take on why she lost:
1. Never held a press conference from the day she was coronated up to the election. Can't handle unscripted responses. Would never address specific issues. Had no plans. The coronation turned a lot of folks off.
2. Kept wrongly attacking Trump as a fascist, nazi, threat to democracy. I can show more reasons why she is/was a threat to democracy. (Do you like being told what kind of appliances you can put in your home, or what kind of vehicle you have to drive? There is more.)
3. Kept using abortion as her primary point. First Trump never said he wanted a national ban. And, he never said that there shouldn't be exceptions. His thoughts were to have the states handle it where folks can have more input and control.
4. Abortion and female health are very important topics to women. But apparently not the most important. What appears to have overridden that topic among women were two things. First, being able to feed their families, pay their rent/mortgage, and not be saddled with both high inflation and terrible shrinkflation. Next, was their safety. The southern border situation has caused grief to many folks and a waste of billions of dollars that could go to helping our citizens. Biden/Harris even wanted to use the VA to take care of illegal migrants. Heck, it has problems taking care of veterans. The sanctuary cities and states are being destroyed, both physically and financially.
5. And racism rears its ugly head. But not what you think. Obama excoriating Black men to vote for Harris as a woman of color. That is not a qualification to be POTUS. Sunny Hostin on "The View" claiming that Latino men were voting for Trump because of sexism and misogyny. Also, she said that uneducated white women elected Trump. Wow....she is a racist pig of the first order.
6. Why has there been a movement among two major minority groups towards the Republicans and Trump? The answer is really very simple. These people are getting tired of the paternalistic pandering of the Democratic party. It was Trump who worked to set up opportunity zones in disadvantaged neighborhoods so folks could advance themselves and have pride in doing it.
A new prediction: Trump will bring peace to the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine within 6 months of taking office.
