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Harris: 75,012,178 votes
Trump: 77,302,416 votes
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3 million people voted third party, nearly 90 million people didn’t vote at all- and you blame democrats….
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Yes. Democrats alienating the people whose votes they need to win is absolutely a democrat problem.
You’re not owed your ass kissed for a vote. That’s not how it works. A candidate has to try to appeal to more than single issue voters. Historicity this has been proven true.
And I said a candidate needs to appeal to a wider audience than to court single issue voters. If those single issue voters understood this, maybe things would have gone differently.
You sure showed them, didn’t you?
I hope you didnt learn the wrong lesson. I was doing post mortem on arguments I had before the election and you came up. Decided to check in on you. My heart was so full after reading this. I know we didn't have the impact we wanted but to see you put aside grievances and made the hard choice is moving me right now. I wanted so badly for you to be astroturfing when I clicked your name but to find this was much much better and gave me a glimpse of some long lost hope I use to have.
No, it's not on you, its on me. I just thought there was no way this person was going to show up this election and I thought it of a lot of people. I held on to that even knowing most people's votes are made insignificant by the electoral college. The only lesson I learned is just to trust other people's judgment and I don't have the answer. So I just have to trust someone else might. Or just generally there is more goodness in the world then mindless hate.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Except it's genocide
If it wasn't for Hillary's pied Piper strategy, Trump never would have been elevated with billions of dollars in free media to become president. If it wasn't for Kamala Harris embracing right-wing politics and every policy of bidens that the public opposed, we wouldn't have Trump right now. Democrats are toxic poison and are their own worst enemy
Riiiiight. It’s always something other than what the numbers show.
The numbers show that the dem's embrace of right-wing policies (and genocide) were wildly unpopular, the thing we have been screaming for 4 years.