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Biden presidency and 2024 election campaign
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Re: Biden presidency and 2024 election campaign
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Re: Biden presidency and 2024 election campaign
Here's a useful, if provisional, review published by 538 yesterday: https://abcnews.go.com/538/donald-trump ... =115556511Jezza wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 11:33 am Looking at the CNN exit poll, the biggest issues of concern for Harris voters were democracy and abortion, which just seemed like ineffective issues to campaign on when the economy was consistently cited as the number one concern for voters. Trump performed well with voters concerned about the economy, illegal immigration and foreign policy.
It's fairly consistent with your observation.
This comment, under the "inflation" discussion particularly attracted my interest:
That may or may not explain the immediate reasons why Trump won on Tuesday - but it certainly points to one underlying problem in US politics that has been developing over many years: the party of the alleged "left" there can't maintain support from the 60% of voters at the bottom end of the economy. Pointing to all the things self-evidently unacceptable about Trump is a form of sport we can indulge in here, without consequence - but, over there, you actually need to present an alternative plan, howsoever embryonic. And campaigning on a bundle of "rights" issues, the criminal misconduct of the other candidate and the defence of democracy against neo-fascism, no matter how significant any of those issues may be, is not going to attract much support when (irrespective of "fault") the economy has tanked on your watch.It's possible that inflation contributed to the growing divide between high-income voters and low-income voters. According to the exit poll, Democrats increased their vote share by 9 points among voters living in households that make more than $100,000 dollars a year. Among households making less, which account for about 60 percent of voters, Republicans gained 12 points on margin.
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Re: Biden presidency and 2024 election campaign
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According to many different articles I read in the lead up and after, around 70% of Americans said, when surveyed in lots of different surveys, that the US was "on the wrong track". They weren't happy with the direction of the country.
Whether or not that's Bidens fault, he copped the blame for it and Harris was linked by association.
Interestingly the economy has actually gone well under Biden, but trying to explain that to people who are facing increasing cost of living pressure isn't easy.
The 2 issues that clearly went in Trump's favour were Immigration and the Economy, 2 things that were viewed to have failed under Biden/Harris watch.
On a side note, I decided to finally check out X (previously Twitter). Oh dear. It's a shit show of wailing and gloating. Piers Morgan actually tweeted that Trump should now declare he identifies as female and become the first female POTUS just to shove one up the Woke brigade.
According to many different articles I read in the lead up and after, around 70% of Americans said, when surveyed in lots of different surveys, that the US was "on the wrong track". They weren't happy with the direction of the country.
Whether or not that's Bidens fault, he copped the blame for it and Harris was linked by association.
Interestingly the economy has actually gone well under Biden, but trying to explain that to people who are facing increasing cost of living pressure isn't easy.
The 2 issues that clearly went in Trump's favour were Immigration and the Economy, 2 things that were viewed to have failed under Biden/Harris watch.
On a side note, I decided to finally check out X (previously Twitter). Oh dear. It's a shit show of wailing and gloating. Piers Morgan actually tweeted that Trump should now declare he identifies as female and become the first female POTUS just to shove one up the Woke brigade.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.