Trump didn’t grow his 2020 base…Harris lost her 2020 base

 

Trump didn’t grow his 2020 base…Harris lost her 2020 base

 

Democratic insiders and progressive pundits are spinning around at warp speed assessing the calamitous election results.

 

Agonizing on how Trump peeled off so many of the Democratic base doesn’t compute with these startling vote totals.

 

Trump won 75,589,234 votes, but only 1,364,916 more than his 74,224,318 in 2020. That’s an increase of merely 1.8% which does not suggest he captured a large number or percentage of Biden’s 2020 voters.

 

However, Harris garnered just 72,445,160 votes, an astonishing 8,839,906 (11.8%) less than Biden’s 81,284,666 votes in ’20.

 

Clearly, most of those nearly 9 million Biden’s ’20 voters stayed home or voted 3rdParty/Write in rather then vote for Trump. Democratic agonists must ponder why to make sense of Harris’ overwhelming loss. If they were truly honest and decent, they would put her support of Israeli genocide in Gaza at the top of their list. Had Trump campaigned to end US weaponizing the Gaza genocide, his vote total may have approached Biden’s massive 2020 vote.

 

I know because for this leader in the peace community, that was the sole reason I could not vote for her. And I know many in the peace community who could not vote for her for the same reason. Polling showed over 75% of Democratic voters wanted the Biden/Harris administration to stop all genocide weapons used by Israel to obliterate Gaza and its 2,300,000 beleaguered inhabitants.

 

Harris totally ignored the genocide in Gaza during the campaign. But when asked, she regurgitated the Biden policy that Israel will get everything they need for their ‘defense’ and that she’d continue Biden’s Gaza policy if elected. She essentially told millions of her base to go straight to hell.

 

But in the thousands of hours and millions of words on progressive news and at DNC headquarters regarding her loss, nary a word about Harris’ genocide support will likely be heard. Unless Democrats pivot to peace, most of those 9 million Biden voters may be lost forever.