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The Real Reason Democrats Lost on Election Day

Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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by Aaron Flanigan
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While many factors likely contributed to the Democrats’ decisive defeat this November, the most significant reason may be far more straightforward: the Democrat Party machine and the far-left progressive movement are too extreme, too divisive, and simply too weird for the American electorate.

According to post-election polling, the reason that voters overwhelmingly rejected the Harris-Walz agenda was not due to one specific policy issue but rather because they strongly opposed the Democrat Party’s toxic brand of cultural leftism.

A November 15 polling analysis conducted by Blueprint found that swing voters broke for Trump over Harris by a margin of 52 percent to 38 percent. Notably, nearly half of these Trump voters made their decision in the campaign’s final weeks—including 15 percent in the last week and an additional 12 percent on Election Day itself.

“In the eyes of swing voters who chose Trump,” the analysis states, “Democrats were misaligned on their top policy priorities.” These Trump voters, the study found, largely perceived Democrats as “too focused on identity politics” (67 percent) and “not doing enough to address crime” (68 percent). Moreover, 75 percent of swing voters who pulled the lever for Trump agreed that Democrats are “too focused on fighting Trump rather than bringing the country together.”

Perhaps most shockingly, less than a quarter of swing voters (22 percent) who backed Trump agreed that Harris prioritized the needs of “Americans like me,” compared to the whopping 80 percent of Americans who agreed that Trump cares about “Americans like me” over the demands of party activists.

“Vice President Harris couldn’t escape what voters think the Democratic Party represents—believing that the party holds extreme positions on the broad swath of issues and would enforce them through policy,” the Blueprint analysis found—citing Harris’s far-left positions like taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens, electric vehicle mandates, the decriminalization of border crossings, and the defund the police movement.

Among swing voters who cast their ballots for Trump, an overwhelming majority believed that Democrats “support immigrants more than American citizens” and are too soft on the border crisis. They also said Democrats “don’t know how to manage the economy,” “aren’t willing to stand up for working people,” are dividing the country “instead of uniting it,” “have extreme ideas about race and gender,” “want to promote critical race theory,” “only care about a small group of elites,” and “don’t share the values that make America special.”

In other words, the American electorate not only saw through Kamala Harris’s faux attempts to rebrand herself as a “moderate” and denounce her extensive list of previously-held radical policy propositions, but they also loudly said “no” to the Democrat Party brand.

Though the Harris campaign and the Democrat Party establishment went to great lengths to obscure their well-documented record of radicalism this election cycle, Blueprint’s post-election polling analysis confirms beyond any reasonable doubt that voters did not buy the rebrand.

In recent months and years, Democrats have solidified their identity as the party that persecutes Americans of faith, criminalizes political dissent, and is aggressively working to undermine key American institutions like the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, the security of U.S. elections, and the nuclear family.

Meanwhile, some of the mainstream left’s top legislative priorities over the last four years have included defending the right to provide dangerous and unproven cross-sex hormones and gender surgeries to minors, forcing everyone to abide by the edicts of far-left gender ideology, targeting law enforcement officers while springing violent criminals from jail, imprisoning pro-life activists, celebrating extreme late-term abortion, treating Americans of faith as “extremists,” and putting criminal illegal aliens above the interests of law-abiding American citizens.

Following Kamala Harris’s late summer entrance into the presidential race, one of her campaign’s top talking points was that Republicans (and more specifically Vice President-elect J.D. Vance) were simply too “weird,” and in some cases too “creepy,” to hold elected office.

But as the election results—and post-election polling—clearly show, this smear campaign was in the end nothing more than an instance of bizarre projection that has now backfired in spectacular fashion.

Thus, as the Democrat Party and left-wing political pundit class continue to conduct their postmortem in the weeks prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, it has become increasingly evident that the simplest—and most accurate—reason they lost at the ballot box will also be the most difficult for them to accept.

Ultimately, the Democrats’ problem is not merely one of policy—but one of branding and perception. To the American voter, Democrats are too radical, too out-of-touch, and yes, too weird to be trusted to wield political power. And until they can finally come to terms with that fundamental political reality, they will likely find themselves confined to a future of embarrassment, irrelevance, and defeat.

Aaron Flanigan is the pen name of a writer in Washington, D.C.

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James
James
1 day ago

America didn’t want a Another Liberal Moron in the white house

Jim Johnson
Jim Johnson
1 day ago

The “Demonrats” are the party of tyranny, despotism, dictatorship, depravity, slavery, death, Jim Crow, the KKK, BLM, Antifa, bigotry, inflation, hatred, and only the Gods know what else. You really have to hate yourself and the country to vote for these people.

Kim
Kim
1 day ago

For all of those reasons, democrats need to redefine what their party is all about and how they can better serve their constituents. If they don’t, they won’t last long as a major political party.

Just look at the state of this country over the last 4 years. There’s crime all over and growing, public education is awful, we’re less proud of our cities and towns, personal and government debt is increasing, the world is on the brink of war on several fronts, we have an open door policy that robs us of our safety and national security, and we have no faith in the ability of biden and harris to govern.

This America is not the one I grew up with! Even with a dem as president or governor, we never faced the challenges we struggle with today. People thought with their brains; they did not formulate policy based on fragile egos and feelings.

The dems love to deposit everyone into all the little boxes–gender, race, income bracket, occupation, religion, political affiliation. As they address the issues pertinent to each of those little boxes, they gather more votes. Address all of them and win a race, if they’re lucky. Not so easy any more because the populace has experienced what this kind of thinking does to divide us, to weaken us, to dampen the American spirit.

President Trump, as an outsider, brought fresh air to those musty halls, and showed us what we’re capable of achieving. He’ll do it again starting in just a few more weeks, and I can’t wait to become reacquainted with the America we love.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 day ago

Lack of message and a bad, lying messenger… like her boss.

Joe
Joe
1 day ago

Read the first paragraph again and remember that the liberals called JD Vance weird. Never forget, the liberals are notorious for accusing conservatives of the very things that the liberals are already guilty of.

Morbious
Morbious
1 day ago

Many of us assumed the demon party was dead or in severe decline during the Reagan years, but four years later we had a sociopathic dem for president. Not trying to be a downer but Trump will need our help and support, especially when rino snakes bite his ankles. Stay awake.

Leslie
Leslie
1 day ago

I will always wonder how much MORE Trump would have “won” if the Dems hadn’t been overdoing the lies those last months before the election. Its really too bad that the First Amendment protects liars who knowingly tell lies. Would be VERY easy to clean up the country if that were a prosecutable offense.

John Bass
John Bass
1 day ago

Nothing new…too bad a lot of voters will have forgotten why they voted Republican this time around. They’ll probably vote for the dark side once again on the next election.

Go ahead call me a pessimist, but I’m not. I like to think of myself as a realist.

LOVER OF GOD AND AMERICA
LOVER OF GOD AND AMERICA
1 day ago

Great Article! LETS GO MAGA!!!

Cher
Cher
1 day ago

Or, more simply, American Dems finally figured out the Dems and MSM have been LYING to them – about EVERYTHING – for a long time! NOTHING is like Dems/MSM portray it to be! NOTHING! Who ya gonna look to now? ghostbusters? Dems/MSM have been ghosted!

anna hubert
anna hubert
1 day ago

Why should they be shocked? Did they expect ,arrogant as they are,to rule the country in perpetuity, because it is their God given right?Maybe the shock came from peasants disobeying the orders. Plantation is not so populated, scarry.

lindylou
lindylou
1 day ago

and to a future of extinction we hope

Granny26
Granny26
1 day ago

All that above and the fact that she has the IQ of a 5 yr old.

DonS
DonS
1 day ago

Revoke Harris’ US Citizenship and force her to move to China along with the rest of the American Traitors!

Refuse and stir up trouble? Firing Squad then!

ppuck64
ppuck64
1 day ago

The real reason was that Kamala was too obviously stupid, and picked a running mate that made her look like a genius.

Gloria
Gloria
1 day ago

Most people could smell the evil.

US pizza
US pizza
1 day ago

Trump was again very lucky. Harris had to please the moderate dems and the far left progressives and that was impossible. There is no way to get a moderate old school dem and an angry gaza protester on the same page.

MikeL
MikeL
9 hours ago

could not have described the plight of the evil party any better if I tried. I have been waiting for this day for decades; when American voters woke up to the lies of the democrats and their ministry of disinformation the collective swirling the toilet of legacy media. The future looks bright!

Owen
Owen
9 hours ago

We the people spoke, and the demonrats still won’t listen. How many close elections where the repugnicans were in the lead, were recounted with additiona demonrat votes, and recounted and recounted until the demonrats won? NOT ONE went against the demonrats – this is beyond belief and should be investigated. The PEOPLES wishes were clear, and election fraud appears rampent in some areas, especially the close races.

uncleferd
uncleferd
11 hours ago

She sure was sexy after the 600th time she said, “I was raised in a middle-class family”….. “Grrrrr!! “

Paul Barnes
Paul Barnes
15 hours ago

Well stated article, indeed! Democrats should read this, but they will not! They think we are just wicked right wing zealots, ready to, Make America Great Again! Trump will get the job done!

JAMES K REESE
JAMES K REESE
18 hours ago

Well-written article! Totally agree!

Marie Saqueton
Marie Saqueton
1 day ago

It’ll take decades of refinement and honesty for the Democrats to redeem their credibility from their treasonous and unpatriotic policies that now defines them to a T.. All we see from their leaders now, are lies, deceptions and attacks against their opponents, which insults the intelligence of all Americans.

Steve Greenwell
Steve Greenwell
1 day ago

The rumors of a Republican landslide are somewhat exaggerated. Trump got barely 50+% of the popular vote to Commie Harris’ 48%. The country remains divided over mutually irreconcilable values. This is not to belittle Trump’s achievement; this is just people-in-hell-need-ice-water realism.

Fran
Fran
2 hours ago

The real reason is people finally really “WOKE UP”………….Love watchin outtakes from cnn and msnbc on why Harris lost…It is better than watching the 3 stooges………….Better days ahead !!!

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