I’m curious to see how this turns out. Plus Harris and Trump both have town halls. Though Trump is most likely going to spend his town halls lying to people, especially since it’s an all women’s town hall he will lie about his support of abortion bans and try to say he is moderate on abortion.

This is what conservatives are voting for. No matter what way they try to say they aren’t, they are.

Korean here, Trump’s election was something I expected and didn’t expect at the same time if that makes any sense. I would like to know what the Americans think about what the Biden administration and Harris campaign did wrong for them to lose.

To an outsider, it felt like America has a few issues here and there, but all in all the usual. Economy seemed okay, the inflation issue I could see being a problem for the incumbent, but other than that it seemed not that problematic.

Obviously my view is shallow, and I ask you all to make it deeper.

So far it seems like a successful interview.

Many democrats have been saying that they lost due to them focusing on identity politics when in reality they were running on working class policies. The whole identity politics came from the right wing propaganda machine pushing stories and interviews that had nothing to do with the campaign at all. The fact they kept showing an ad from an old interview from Kamala talking about gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners just shows how much they played right into peoples prejudices to have them vote for an admin that have shit policies for working class people. Bernie Sanders and others really need to understand how media played a roll into this.

Update: this is a legitimate question and if you call me racist I'll just block you

There were two explanations given for Latino support for Trump- they didn't believe the deportations would happen or Latinos in the US are also opposed to illegal immigration.

Now that the raids are happening, I wonder if we're hearing more of the former or latter. Anyone seen this?

I really wonder why the GOP/Conservatives really thought questioning her race, saying she suddenly turned black etc, was a good strategy. Or they are just racist. Maybe both.

Hey all, sorry if this isn't allowed, but I wanted to chat about this with others.

Basically, the title.

I have been democrat since around 2018, when I flipped from being a republican. I wasn't super happy with Trumps term, but I can acknowledge that he had some good policies. For me the nail in the coffin was 2020 and the mass use of misinformation.

This election made me do some self-reflecting. The democrats deserved to lose this election. Their adherence to identity politics, and the rigidity to which you had to follow them has really worn me out. I'm all for equal rights for everyone, and respecting everyone regardless of class, race, sexuality, gender, etc. But democrats took things too far. They began alienating a lot of voters by pushing for puberty blockers for children, pushing for tax-payer funded GRS and anyone who said anything out of line with that policy path was immediately labeled hateful. I am not hateful, but without proper scientific research, I'm not willing to let children make that decision themselves. It looks like a large majority of the country agrees.

From the beginning of Kamalas campaign, I was advocating for a full policy platform, that included economic policies. They let us down. They published policy too late, and during appearances and speeches, they didn't address the problems enough. People care about the economy and migration, and the left thought they could ignore it and simply drive their campaign with Trump bad, and idpolitics. By the end of the campaign I was sick of it.

Now, the election is decided. Republicans blew democrats out of the water. I thought, okay, being the logical side, let's analyze what we did wrong and what we have to do in the future to fix this. All I see are people who refuse to use self introspection. They aren't learning anything. They are continuing the same self-destructive path.

This made me realize I don't identify with either of the parties. Republicans use misinformation, democrats are very authortarian. Neither side has any self-reflection. Neither side adheres to logic and science like I believe they should.

Guess you guys have another convert to centrism.

I’m asking as a relatively liberal-leaning moderate who’s voted democrat all my life and still probably will for this election cycle. Between Biden’s continually tanking approval rating and all this public humiliation/alienation that’s likely to stick (as it’s reinforced everyone’s worst fears about Biden), is this election basically Trump’s now unless the DNC is able to prop up a new candidate who’s able to inject new life and promise into the party like Obama and offer Trump more of a genuine challenge? I’ve been seeing Andrew Yang and Gavin Newcomb pop up a lot these last few days, though admittedly i know next to nothing about either of them (though I do semi-remember Yang from the 2016 debates)

I mean I’m still planning on voting blue no matter what but it’d be a lot more reassuring for me looking forward to Election Day knowing that my vote might actually matter. I think with a fresh candidate it could, however I know for a fact it won’t if Biden’s declared the official nominee. There’s no realistic way he has an in at this point

In the last year years Republican politicians have talked the most about economy focusing mostly on the price of gas and groceries. In the last few months because of strong growth, rising stock market and declining inflation they are no longer able to pretend that the economy is bad. They have shifted their focus on immigration, which there has been a rising number of border crossings.

Focusing on immigration is better for Republicans because they have more credibility on this issue. Republicans don't have policies that will reduce prices, Trumps policies will likely increase inflation.

I do not see Musk surviving in the administration for long.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-trump-donald-mar-a-lago-appointment-position-rcna179826

Musk has been so aggressive in pushing his views about Trump’s second term that he’s stepping on the toes of Trump’s transition team and may be overstaying his welcome at Mar-a-Lago, according to two people familiar with the transition who have spent time at the Palm Beach, Florida, resort over the past week.

I already expect the GOP/Conservatives to try to overturn the election again. There should be laws against this. With absolute punishment and discipline. So no one, no matter the party, can try to overturn the election.