Having to continually correct you about what I've said or what I believe is getting old and you'd think you'd stop making sweeping judgements about my stances now that I've disproven your allegations several times. But let's level set for a moment
- This was far from a landslide as far as the popular vote goes, in fact, it is 41st out of 55 elections that have been held since 1824.
- Trump won 49.9 % of the vote which means the majority voted for someone other than Trump
- She had a substantial lead up until she started doing interviews which showed that she was no great thinker <----admission that we did something wrong.
- If Josh Shapiro had run, he would have won easily so the clear lesson is we need to run better candidates, first and foremost.
For the record, I didn't want her or Biden to run but once it was decided that she was the candidate, she way out-performed my expectations so of course I got behind her because Trump was and still is a threat to democracy, world order and decency. His appointments so far are proving he's not interested in unifying this country - just destroying our govt. from the inside while making life miserable for anyone who opposed him. What a sick platform.
The Trump campaign successfully painted her as a far-left liberal by running the trans ad 24/7 and she never addressed it and that was a huge mistake. It didn't matter that the clip they used was from 2019 when she was a Senator representing California, where it would have had negative consequences for her if she didn't show support for that community. She could have just said she was only following the law that was in place under the Trump administration and it only led to two transition surgeries. Not addressing it at all was a failure and showed that she was beholden to the far-left progressive wing of the party.
I do believe she tried to reach out to the uneducated voters that made up Trump's biggest voting bloc by proposing tax cuts for the middle class, assistance to small business start ups and down payment assistance to help home buyers but she couldn't overcome the right-wing disinformation machine, including the world's loudest mega-phone - Elon's X and that combined with her inability to articulate her platform sunk her in the end.
So yes, Democrats need to track back to the middle and we need an exciting, transformational candidate who can sell their vision. Those are the two main take-aways from the election IMO. I'm still a pompous asshole but that's beside the point...