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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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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, the notion that she was going to put a Republican in her cabinet.....did anyone think that was a good idea? I mean, outside the beltway media?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know every early on she was talking about possibly having a Republican Vice President before she wised up and went with Tim Walz and ran on his progressive ideas for about... three seconds till Nancy and the DNC told her to just do what Hillary did, as that worked for her and Kamela is obviously the second female president right now. /s

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seeing Walz as her VP pick was such a win and then everything started slipping away. If you listened to her speeches you'd start to notice she was slowly leaning more conservative, slowly backpedaling on a lot of Biden admin policies even. And for some reason she was absolutely obsessed with going on right wing media outlets.

I genuinely think she's rather well spoken but what a waste of potential.

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was kind of Lukewarm on Walz initially, but he was super endearing. He was cooking there for a minute and then the DNC muzzled him. I remember the moment he got shut up about the electoral college I thought to myself "annnnd now all of his appeal is gone and he's just another boring politician". It was really startling to see how little he actually had to do to get the leash tugged.

[–] turddle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yep. Walz was a win and if the DNC was actually about it, they’d back him in the next primary and pair him with a firebrand Texan (or other southern native) while letting them do their thing.

Big IF though…

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And to think it might have worked if she just went on Joe Rogan

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

No. America would never elect a woman who wasn't a boot-licking slave to the patriarchy. Which is why I think we'll see a GOP president, if we ever have even fake elections in the future.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was a media lie. She said that sarcastically and both her and the reporter were laughing. Media didn't report that fact, other than the original interview which aired like one time.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

She said repeatedly toward the end that she would keep people she disagrees with close to her in the white house because she's open minded or something