Nearly one month later, the Democratic Party and the pundits and other politics experts are continuing to study the wreckage of the 2024 election. They are asking themselves how this could have possibly happened. How could we have been so wrong in assessing the country’s mood? They need to quickly come up with the correct answer because they are running out of time. Trump has promised a campaign of revenge and retribution against his perceived enemies. He is not kidding.
The public opinion polls suggested that the election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would be very close — and more specifically that Harris would be much more competitive, if not the victor. Of course, this did not happen. The fabled Democratic blue wall was easily smashed by Trump and his MAGA movement. Trump also made in-roads as he won support from key parts of the Democratic Party’s base across the country. This hinted at a larger trend as Kamala Harris and the Democrats experienced a collapse of support among a wide range of voters. The result: Trump would increase his support by more than two million votes as compared to the 2020 election. By comparison, Harris received seven million fewer votes than President Biden did in 2020.
