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Why the 2024 Election Shattered the Democratic Party (Best take on 2024 election I've read)
Newsweek ^ | 03/19/2025 | Stuart Gottlieb

Posted on 03/19/2025 10:59:24 PM PDT by Az Joe

Since the 2024 election, the Democratic Party has been struggling to reconcile its significant losses, not just of the presidency and Senate majority, but of large swaths of formerly reliable Democratic voters. Debates over what to do next have reached a fever pitch, and, with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans moving swiftly to reshape all things Washington, the stakes could not be higher for the party and the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; democrats; elections; voting
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Three core narratives guiding Democrats (and many in the media) for decades were shown to be self-serving myths, and no amount of consultant-driven triage will help until the party comes to grips with this new reality.
1 posted on 03/19/2025 10:59:24 PM PDT by Az Joe
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Trump didn’t “just win” 2024. He eviscerated any semblance of what was once known as the Democrat party. We reached a stunning national consensus -— we have not lived in anything resembling the nation that was envisioned by our Founders. That is about to be reversed, dramatically evidenced in 2024’s presidential election when a broad coalition voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

<><>Dems lost the White House, the House, the Senate and the popular vote.
<><>Dems were rejected coast to coast,
<><>Republicans won majorities in 31 out of 50 states
<><>Trump’s big victories: Wy (72.3%), WVa (70.1%), N/Dk (67.5%), Idaho (66.8%), Ok (66.1%).

<><>Trump received more than 2.5 million votes than he did in 2020
<><>Trump gained ground in all 50 states
<><>Harris saw a decline of seven million votes from Biden’s total 2020.

<><>Texas boosted Trump’s total in the popular vote by a net of 900,000-plus votes
<><>Florida a competitive state saw a dramatic swing in Trump’s direction.
<><>Trump’s win reflects major shifts in South Fla and South Texas Latino voters.

<><>Dem Gov Whitmer outspent Repubs 4-to-1, but Repubs still made gains in state elections.
<><>Dems saw huge vote declines in blue states.
<><>NY votes sank by more than 800,000 from Biden’s 2020 total.

<><>Ohio Sen Sherrod Brown, working-class champion, toppled by a Republican
<><>Biden’s party is increasingly dominated by elite voters.
<><>Pa Democrat Sen Bob Casey lost, but refused to concede,
<><>Trump Won More Black Voters Than Any Republican in 48 Years—
<><>Trump won 101 Chicago precincts-—home to high numbers of city workers,
<><>Trump won 22% of the Chicago vote-—increased from 2020’s 16%

<><>Pelosi’s own deep-blue S/Francisco base saw a 7-point swing to Trump.
<><>President Trump won 312 of 538 electoral votes, including all seven battleground states.
<><>Georgia Republicans create a private-school vouchers program.
<><>Republican flips CA seat (district has 14 pt Dem registration advantage)
<><>Republicans control the Georgia General Assembly.
<><>Trump-backed Republican takes Alaska’s only House seat.

<><>NYC Asian precincts saw a 31% rightward shift to Trump.
<><>Pubbies popular vote lead is 4 million (1.4 mill by “Dem count”)
<><>late votes increase lead for Ca Republican House incumbent
<><>pitching for Harris, Obama is wrong about Trump, a-g-a-i-n.
<><>issues Trump ran on polled landslide majorities.

<><>Rural areas went foursquare for Trump
<><>In 2024, Trump won rural America by a record margin.
<><>Since 1980, no candidate has done better.
<><>Trump won 64% of rural voters according to exit polls.
<><>The previous best was 61% – set by Trump in 2016.
<><>Dems 6 points over Trump in NJ, is their closest surge in three decades.

<><>YouGov poll saw 57% aged 18-29 w/ favorable views of Trump, a 19 point increase.
<><>Trump gains among 18-29’ers account for 16% of the 2024 electorate.
<><>Young people gave Trump victory, a profound, historic generational realignment.

And there you have Democrats’ 2024 debt-ridden $2 billion collapse, up close.


2 posted on 03/19/2025 11:02:26 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......")
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To: Az Joe

bookmark for later


3 posted on 03/19/2025 11:02:37 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Az Joe

WUT?


4 posted on 03/19/2025 11:05:02 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Liz

BFL


5 posted on 03/19/2025 11:05:37 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Az Joe

It was folly to have your mouth piece legacy media tote the water for the Democrat Administration and tell everyone the economy’s numbers are good and people are largely too stupid to understand them. What you paid for groceries, gas, electricity, water, telephone, insurance, health insurance et al (ever increasing) didn’t matter.


6 posted on 03/19/2025 11:07:05 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Uhhh,...are you speaking to me sir?


7 posted on 03/19/2025 11:09:47 PM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Az Joe
Ninety percent of America's over 3,100 counties shifted toward Republicans between 2020 and 2024, with voters of virtually every demographic category contributing to this swing

For me, this was the most damning sentence in the article.

And according to the article below, published two days ago, the Democrats' problem is "messaging," not the core ideology.

R.I.P. Democrats? Not So Fast: How Messaging Can Reignite the Party

8 posted on 03/19/2025 11:10:59 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: goldbux

* * * PDJT’s 2024 election victory highlights * * *


9 posted on 03/19/2025 11:12:41 PM PDT by goldbux (“The whole world is a very narrow bridge. The main thing is to have no fear at all.” –– R. Nachman)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Every election for 4 decades has been decided by less than 17 % of the counties


10 posted on 03/19/2025 11:14:50 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Liz

We won, the rats lost. And deservedly so.


11 posted on 03/19/2025 11:15:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Yes, there was a massive red tide/tsunami


12 posted on 03/19/2025 11:16:14 PM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Liz

Worst spent money ever


13 posted on 03/19/2025 11:16:41 PM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

How crazy are they to say that it’s just messaging?! Lol!

As I hear them say that time after time I just smile silently. It means they still don’t get it.


14 posted on 03/19/2025 11:18:36 PM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Az Joe

No I was speaking to the nominal Democrat in this case. Media and government tried to pull the numbers thing on all of us but only the Democrats really believed it.


15 posted on 03/19/2025 11:18:41 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Az Joe

bump


16 posted on 03/19/2025 11:25:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Az Joe

The Democrats ran an awful candidate. In the 2020 primaries she was trounced. The 2024 election simply reflected that. What DOGE is revealing, however, is changing a lot of minds against Democrats and draining their stolen funds.


17 posted on 03/19/2025 11:29:26 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Liz

Democrats trying to figure out which lies to concoct to try to fool the public


18 posted on 03/20/2025 1:36:29 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Liz
The author leaves out the most important thing that "shattered" the Democrat party: the lies became too much to ignore anymore.

After four years of lying to FISA courts about President Trump and Russia, after four years of lying to the American people about Joe Biden's condition, and after lying to their own voters for six months by dismissing an entire primary and installing a last-minute Presidential candidate of their own choosing whom they lied about being competent...

...they then go ahead and prove to everyone that they were lying all along about the importance of keeping the government operating and avoiding a shutdown.

Now they're lying about Elon Musk, they're lying about DOGE, they admitted they lied about COVID-19, and they're still lying to themselves about why they lost the election.

-PJ

19 posted on 03/20/2025 1:48:56 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Az Joe

They are the party of DEATH and DESTRUCTION!! They BUILD NOTHING......they DESTROY ALL THAT’S GOOD!


20 posted on 03/20/2025 2:35:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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