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Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead. (www.rollingstone.com)

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Harris only received five percent of Republican votes — less than the six percent Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the seven percent won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. While Harris won independents and moderates, she did so by smaller margins than Biden did in 2020.

Meanwhile, Harris lost households earning under $100,000, while Democratic turnout collapsed. Votes are still being counted, but Harris is on pace to underperform Biden’s 2020 totals by millions of votes.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone needs to let them know how strongly this article is nailing it.

https://democrats.org/contact-us/

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[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Dang, how did that work out? Oh? Alot like 2016 you say?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's not so much as that it collapsed as it was artificially inflated in 2020.

The drive for covid-safe vote by mail turned out far more people in 2020 than 2024 and that helped Biden.

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago

When you consider that left leaning folk are more likely to lean into voting apathy that the right-wing, the DNC were fools to assume they had all the left-wing votes in the bag without actually doing anything to appeal to them.

For Christ's sake, Harris got in because people wanted change over Biden, her campaign was for change, yet the first thing she says is she doesn't plan to do anything different to Biden - and if that's not a momentum killer, I don't know what is.

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