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Blame the election system, not the voters. Its not a democracy
What a shitty election system. Anyway, i'll vote for the racist diaper boy.
I hate the mango man but he won both the popular vote and electoral vote. How is that the fault of the system? The Dems put up a losing candidate that polled abysmally when she was running in the original primaries against Biden. To many in the center, the Dems had also swung too far left for their own flavor of progressive ideology. Put those two things together and they didn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the election.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes? I'm just stating facts. Kamala was NOT a likeable candidate for many on the left and center, so they simply didn't vote. This led to cheeto in charge winning both the PV and EC. The rest of the world isn't nearly as progressive as most folks on Lemmy.
The system is stupid because you only have two parties so if one of them is useless then you're screwed. But that's the voter's fault if they voted for third party candidates and actually organized themselves in such a way that they all voted for the same third party candidate then they could actually achieve something.
He won the popular vote this time because people didn't vote. Because there was no viable candidate for the left.
Again thats a problem with democracy. He's not the candidate that the majority of people want. He won because we dont have a democracy
Looking at exit polls and post election polls it was the economy. Trump was very direct in his promise to lower prices. Harris ran over a hundred different messaging lines which clouded her economic message. Then she got caught on national TV defending Biden's economy and saying nothing would change.
Yeah. IMO democrats refusing to acknowledge the state of the economy is what tipped the scale. You'd have to be a complete moron to believe Trump had any solutions for the economy, but he at least acknowledged that economically there's something wrong. Harris on the other hand doubled down on Biden's economic message of sticking your head in the sand and going "the economy is good".