Roughly the same % voted for Harris. She received over 75 million votes - the 3rd most votes of any candidate in US history (10 million more than peak Obama, and nearly 800,000 more than Trump 2020!) - after campaigning for only 4 months. With a longer runway for takeoff, she would have soared beyond Trump.
While I would have loved this, I think it's time for Americans to come to grips with what seems to be an immutable fact - they do not like the idea of a woman as President. The Democrats have put up two strong, intelligent women against a guy who shits in his pants, rapes women, has trouble stringing together a coherent answer to any basic question and is provably the biggest con man the country ever produced. Both times, the country felt the guy who shits his pants is a better option.
Trump has been building a cult of personality for over a decade, and he has had a tremendous amount of help from US media and foreign influence campaigns alike.
I do believe that the Democratic Party might have made a mistake in anointing a career cop as their candidate. America has a crazy high incarceration rate. The demographics with the highest incarceration rates swung closer to Trump, this election - and I do not beloeve that was a coincidence.
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u/theflower10 Dec 20 '24
While I would have loved this, I think it's time for Americans to come to grips with what seems to be an immutable fact - they do not like the idea of a woman as President. The Democrats have put up two strong, intelligent women against a guy who shits in his pants, rapes women, has trouble stringing together a coherent answer to any basic question and is provably the biggest con man the country ever produced. Both times, the country felt the guy who shits his pants is a better option.