The Donald Trump Score Card

Democrats pick apart Trump victory: ‘How do you spend $1bn and not win?’

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The Democratic pollster Paul Maslin argued that Harris did as well as she could have, given the environment and circumstance. Harris “did a really good job”, Maslin told Politico, but ultimately “this race was unwinnable”.

“Trump, rightly or wrongly, his persona and his fundamental attack line against the condition of the country, the Biden-Harris administration and frankly the Democratic party, was in the end unbeatable,” he said.

CNN’s national political correspondent Alex Thompson noted that a former adviser to Joe Biden criticized the Harris campaign, asking: “How do you spend $1bn and not win?”

 

Hillary Clinton outspent Trump by about two to one in 2016 and lost to him.


https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-clinton-campaign-fundraising-totals-232400


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https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1199318220/nonpartisan-open-primaries-explainer

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Gruber says states with closed primaries also have more polarization.

"You are starting to see states that shut out independent voters have primary elections that are more and more insular and are producing candidates that are less and less representative because fewer and fewer people are able to participate in them," he says. "And that's throwing the whole system of democracy in elections out of whack."

AEI's Kosar says polarization isn't unique to closed primary states, though. Voters have self-sorted themselves and are polarized on their own, but he puts some blame on partisan primaries.

"After 100 years of experimentation with this, we see that there are clear problems with this system — not least of which is that it produces candidates who frequently aren't particularly representative of the average voter," Kosar says. "And that is an issue for democracy."

 

Article from July 2024 suggesting that the Democrats should have done a fully open blitz primary to help galvanize the electorate.


Biden can’t win, but Democrats still can with a ‘blitz primary’

 

Article about excluded independents.


Not Invited to the Party Primary: Independent Voters and the Problem with Closed Primaries — Unite America Institute

 

Melania Trump expected to be part-time First Lady.


Melania Trump expected to be part-time first lady

 

Current electoral count projections.

Trump: 292
Harris: 224

Presidential Election Results Map: Trump Wins

 

The 2016, 2020, and 2024 electoral vote margins are looking very similar.

2016 election
Trump: 304
Hillary: 227

2020 election
Biden: 306
Trump: 232

2024 election (projected and incomplete)
Trump: 292
Harris 224

 

Trump ran a campaign for men and it worked.


Donald Trump ran a campaign for men — it worked

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"Trump specifically sought to get young men of all races and men without a college education to the polls. It was a risky strategy because the voters Trump was seeking have historically been among the most difficult to mobilize. But in appealing to them, Trump hoped to pull off another win similar to that of 2016, when he won men by 11 points. In 2020, Biden was able to defeat Trump in part by erasing his large advantage with male voters. This year, it seems, Trump won men back.

There are many reasons why male voters have been dissatisfied in recent years and might have been receptive to his messaging. Inflation has made the cost of living painful for millions of people post-pandemic. Men are falling behind women in education. Their wages are stagnating or declining as women’s wages grow, and fewer men are working. They are struggling with an epidemic of loneliness that doesn’t seem to be affecting women in a similar manner. Feminism has gone mainstream, making some men feel like they aren’t as valued."

 

Harris gives concession speech.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ates?page=with:block-672be0148f08040dded3977c

 

Not even 24 hours have gone by, and already the stock markets gained over 1,500 points, up 3.5%.... gas prices at all stations in my area dropped 10 cents overnight.... I'll e gaining back thousands of dollars in the social security taxes I'll no longer e saddled with, and my overtime is now going to e tax free as well. It's like breathing again

 

If this election has the biggest turnout, as reported by most people, why have there 15 million fewer votes counted????

 

The hordes of Ryder trucks from the DNC print shop with all the pre-printed, pre-filled out ballots failed to show up at the polls overnight this time?

 

Hold your breath waiting for those or any other of his promises to be honored.

Go.

Yeah, that must be it.

Dismissed.

 

Trump beat Harris in MI by about 81,000 votes (1.5%).


https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/11/05/michigan-president/

 

Trump won Wisconsin by about 29,000 votes (0.9%).

 

Trump has won the popular vote by about 4.8 million votes (3.5%) in the 2024 election.

This time he doesn't have to set up a presidential commission like he did in 2017 to try to find the supposed 3 million votes that he said Hillary stole from him.

He could still make such a claim if he isn't satisfied with his popular vote win margin over Harris. Trump is known for being a sore winner.

 

Reaction of foreign leaders and governments to Trump win.


Foreign leaders and governments react as Trump wins 2024 U.S. presidential election

 

The cost of no-tax promises made by Trump (and Harris).

It's easy to make tax cut promises about Social Security, tips, overtime, and corporations while not explaining how they will be paid for in the budget.

The cuts would need to be implement through Congress which remains nearly evenly divided. A 60-vote majority to implement some of the proposals won't be easy to realize. An example is Trump's failed attempt during a Republican-controlled Congress to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and failure to pass a watered-down skinny repeal. It made Trump fume permanently against Sen. McCain, even after his death.

The national debt increased by about $8 trillion during Trump's term. It's a higher bill the country has to pay each year for interest on the increased debt.


What Donald Trump’s no-tax pledges on tips, overtime and Social Security could cost