Did you really think Kamala would win? Deep down inside, did you?

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Anonymous wrote:White male, I voted for her even though I lean conservative. I honestly thought she was a shoo-in. I really thought enough of this country was tired of Trump...maybe not the policies he stands for, but the man himself, that they'd just say no. I was wrong.

I think what shocked me most was Latino men voting for him as much as they did, given his anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Maybe because they are not a monolith and don’t associate themselves with illegals.

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The Trump administration is pro-legal immigration. They are against ILLEGAL immigration. Democrats love to conflate the two. Those who waited years to come here legally aren't about to support the millions who think they can just jump the line.

Trump is for White, European immigrants who also speak English fluently.
You here this a lot, even in academic "liberal" circles where folks busted their asses.

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Frankly, she did win this election.

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Anonymous wrote:I never felt like she had it in the bag, but I will admit that I’m quite surprised that Trump won by this margin. I thought it would be close. While it’s no shocker that she lost, I will never be able to understand how so many people could vote for someone as ill suited for the job as Trump, especially when they’ve had the last 8 years to get to know him. What made Trump more palatable than the other Republican candidates who ran? That’s the thing I can’t grasp.

Why is the American electorate so fickle? They were lukewarm on Trump in 2016, turned off by his performance as president in 2020, he’s done nothing to become more appealing since then, and now they give him a mandate? He has never produced any credible plans to solve any of the issues he runs on. He admitted he has a concept of a plan…4 years after serving a 4 year term as president, during which he repeatedly said he was just weeks away from unveiling the most beautiful plan. We’re about to have another octogenarian at the helm. Trump talks about absurd nonsense. He gets confused easily. He’s having speech issues. He’s been complaining at rallies that he’s tired. Remember when those types of issues made people concerned about Biden’s presidency? But let’s embrace Trump’s decline!

It's baffling. He's does what he does best, cons people. Lots believe the election was stolen in 2020. A wealthy guy (largely inherited from daddy) from New York has duped the working class Joe from Ohio that he cares about their struggles. Hilarious.

It's only baffling to out of touch morons like you. Thinking like this is why she lost so bad, keep it up, it's nice watching you whiny little babies self-destruct.

What exactly did Trump do for the middle class during his last term? He inherited the stable economy from Obama. He locked migrant kids in cages, but I don't think that made life for the middle class easier. He mishandled the pandemic by not taking action soon enough and arguing with health officials. He gave out unemployment and stimulus checks, but they obviously contributed to the state the economy is currently in, aka "Biden's" inflation. You keep calling Dems out of touch but the Republicans are merely pretending to be in touch. High tariffs on foreign goods will not lower housing and grocery prices. You do know the VP elect insulted the working class in his book right? Trump doesn't care about you. He cares about his fragile ego and probably wants to be able to pardon himself.

--Kids in cages? Obama did it first, but the media/leftists didn't care until big bad orange man did it.
--Pandemic: Trump immediately tried to close the borders to China, from whence the virus originated, and was called a racist xenophobic blah blah blah. Democratic leaders in NY and San Francisco went out of their way to encourage people to congregate and attend Chinese events as a middle finger to the big bad orange man. I clearly remember this - do you? Were you even aware? Trump, as you well know, pushed Operation Warp Speed to develop the covid vaccine. The rest? It was literally an unprecedented situation and therefore it's impossible to (accurately) say a Democratic president would've handled it better.
--Stimmies: Yes, the Trump checks contributed to inflation. But the "Inflation Reduction Act" (ha - even Biden admitted it wasn't really about reducing inflation) and American Rescue Plan Act were hugely inflationary. Further, the Biden admin insisted that inflation was transitory when it decidedly was not. It then trumpeted the decreasing RATE of inflation without acknowledging that prices were (and are) still inflated.
--Tariffs: Admittedly, I am concerned about the near-term effects of tariffs on the working class's wallets. However, the reasoning behind them is SO important: Trump wants to encourage, whether with a carrot or with a stick, companies to manufacture in America again. Reshore jobs! Buy American! I fully support this ambition. I sincerely hope for progress on this front.
--I read Hillbilly Elegy. Did you? I am from a working class family and grew up in a working class area. I didn't find Hillbilly Elegy to be insulting to the working class. I found it to be largely accurate of my own experience. Just because certain parts of it may be unflattering, doesn't mean it's insulting. This is a big issue with the left of calling facts they don't like "racist" or "hate speech". The truth isn't always pretty.

OP of the post you responded to. Cant blame this one on Dems. Trump definitely mismanaged the pandemic. If he handled it well, he'd have been reelected. He ignored advice from officials and shown disdain for things like masking. No proof that these gatherings you mentioned spearheaded anything.

Ok, but Fox News refers to this as Biden’s inflation and his alone.

Someone said his merchandise is made in China already, and I think consumers say they will pay more for American made goods, but in reality... If rising prices are a concern, increasing tariffs on foreign goods seems counterproductive.

No, and don't plan to. Eh, maybe for shits and giggles. Fair, but I feel that leeway has been given because if a Dem wrote this you would see it as condescending.

DP. It is never condescending when a person who lived something then writes about it. It is only condescending when anyone writes an unflattering portrayal of a life they did not live themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly, she did win this election.

What an odd comment. She most decidedly didn't win, and in a way that was a very clear mandate.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly, she did win this election.

Huh? She cost us this election by picking Walz.

What do you even mean????? We lost POTUS, both chambers of Congress, the popular vote, and any chance of a SOTUS majority for a decade at the very least.

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Anonymous wrote:Before Biden dropped out, no, I did not think she could win because she has the same unlikability that Clinton did. Then her campaign really took off and Trump seemed to be faltering, so I thought maybe she could do it. I personally can't imagine supporting Trump, so it's hard for me to understand that other people do.

Her campaign never took off. His never faltered. It was all media spin and the echo chamber.

I thought they were two terrible candidates and an embarrassment that they were the best our country could put forth for an election. I voted for Trump because I feel he’s the better choice to lead the country, after experiencing both already. The election results were not a surprise at all. I went to bed early on Tuesday.

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Trump is 78 years old and conducted 400 rallies. No water, no chair, no script, no campaign staffers minding the journalists control room/ edit. Now that’s someone who loves the country and it’s people and shows up for Americans.

Kamala couldn’t even show up to Howard U to thank her supporters. Weak

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is 78 years old and conducted 400 rallies. No water, no chair, no script, no campaign staffers minding the journalists control room/ edit. Now that’s someone who loves the country and it’s people and shows up for Americans.

Kamala couldn’t even show up to Howard U to thank her supporters. Weak

Trump had 4 years to campaign and Kamala had 3 months. The Campaign was dead when Biden didn’t drop out earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping, but was unsure.


Her biggest flaw was hiding in her safe zone. She didn’t sell her self, she just preached to the choir.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is 78 years old and conducted 400 rallies. No water, no chair, no script, no campaign staffers minding the journalists control room/ edit. Now that’s someone who loves the country and it’s people and shows up for Americans.

Kamala couldn’t even show up to Howard U to thank her supporters. Weak

Trump had 4 years to campaign and Kamala had 3 months. The Campaign was dead when Biden didn’t drop out earlier.

Trump’s been campaigning for 10 years even during covid. He would’ve done more in 2020 if not for covid and people dying after attending his rallies.

One of the most impressive qualities of Trump is his extroversion and love of people and conversation. He spoke to his Gardener at length about who he should choose as VP. Secret Service said Trump was always asking them questions about their family and what the military was like. Smart people are inquisitive and they ask questions and they don’t look down on anybody or what anybody has to say whether it’s the gardener or an Air Force one pilot or a dictator of a authoritarian regime.

Talking is not being a lapdog. It’s how information and understanding occurs. Kamala, Biden, Hillary were all afraid of talking candidly

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is 78 years old and conducted 400 rallies. No water, no chair, no script, no campaign staffers minding the journalists control room/ edit. Now that’s someone who loves the country and it’s people and shows up for Americans.

Kamala couldn’t even show up to Howard U to thank her supporters. Weak

Just his special microphone.

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Anonymous wrote:I was hoping, but was unsure.


Her biggest flaw was hiding in her safe zone. She didn’t sell her self, she just preached to the choir.

I honestly don’t know what her policy positions are. It’s like she was scared to say what she thought, as if everything that came out of her mouth had to be vetted.

She should have gone on Rogan.

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She seemed to follow the Biden 2020 strategy of keeping quiet and letting Trump beat himself- with a big assist from the media.

But she is not Biden (who voters were far more familiar with) and this was not 2020 (where she could use COVID as an excuse).

She’d have been better off to put herself out there, take a risk or two and let people get to know HER and what SHE thinks. Rogan would’ve been a great avenue for this. I don’t know why this was never done but IMP she was advised poorly.

It wasn't done because it would have been a DISASTER

She could not articulate anything and did nothing (along with Biden) to stop the crisis at the border. She could never do 3 hours off script. The only time she was able to get across any points that weren't on a teleprompter was the debate. As a Trump voter I would have loved it though. Maybe he would have won by more popular votes!

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She won. Elon + peter t cheated. Trump admitted it at MSG.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt Hillary 2.0 vibes for much of the campaign. But then in the last weekend I bought into the narrative that she had a last minute momentum. It was a mirage.

It was based on the poll that she was winning Iowa. Sadly, polls are becoming more irrelevant as the best information comes from on line postings.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is 78 years old and conducted 400 rallies. No water, no chair, no script, no campaign staffers minding the journalists control room/ edit. Now that’s someone who loves the country and it’s people and shows up for Americans.

Kamala couldn’t even show up to Howard U to thank her supporters. Weak

Trump had 4 years to campaign and Kamala had 3 months. The Campaign was dead when Biden didn’t drop out earlier.

Sad thing was the longer she had to campaign, the worse she would do.

After the initial jump in the polls, her campaign got stale. Same boring interviews with long winded answers. Same celebrity endorsements. Same doom and gloom about Trump, rather than focusing on her vision for America. It reminded Americans why they rejected her in 2019.


So the longer her campaign went, the worse she would do.