Democrats sink into despair after Trump win - POLITICO
Nov. 6, 2024
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“Really never fully took in that this could happen again,” said one former Democratic Party official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “It is beyond any words I can use to describe.”
The warning signs for Harris began cropping up even before the results from most states started rolling in Exit polls showed Trump making inroads with Black menin North Carolina and in Georgia, which the Republican wrested back from Democrats not long into election night. Harris also underperformed nationally with Hispanic voters and young voters compared to Biden in 2020, exit polls found.
Those surveys even showed so-called double-haters — voters who held unfavorable opinions of both candidates — breaking for Trump.
Then Trump started running up the score across the map.With more than 2,500 counties reporting at least 95% of the vote, Trump has outperformed his 2020 margins in roughly 92 percent of them, according to a POLITICO analysis of preliminary results from the Associated Press.
And Trump made gains even in deep-blue areas like his former home of New York City. Harris, meanwhile, was lagging Biden in key counties he won four years ago — including Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, which includes the president’s native Scranton.
“He expanded his base a little and they came out,” said Neil Oxman, a Pennsylvania-based Democratic strategist. And that, combined with Harris underperforming Biden, “is the difference in switching a state.”
With each minute that Harris’ potential paths to the White House narrowed, the mood within her campaign and among Democrats more broadly grew grimmer.
In an attempt to assuage anxieties, Harris’ campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, circulated a memo, obtained by POLITICO, to staffers late Tuesday night that said: “We have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states. And we feel good about what we’re seeing.”
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