What Did the Democrats Do Wrong?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : It was a clear victory for Trump, but it wasn't, you know, Reagan '84.
54% : So okay, back to No. 1.
53% : Maybe.No. 2, an open process opens up Gaza
52% : I think that people often forget how contingent things are and how unique of a figure Trump is.
51% : And Trump gained in all of those little red counties out there where it's just land, all right?
50% : There's evidence from Dan Rosenhack at The Economist that it looks like the campaign effects were more effective than Trump's on things like -- indicating things like ads and rallies were better for Harris.
49% : And Trump and even J. D. Vance in certain ways were able to take advantage of that by running campaigns that are a little bit more unwieldy, that are better for viral clips, that are also better for sitting down for two hours and broing out with the Theo Von and talking about how you can't even do coke in this country anymore because the fentanyl is in it, right?
49% : Republicans can diversify their party by getting softer on cultural issues and reaching out to the suburbs and reaching out to Hispanic voters and Black voters, criminal-justice reform, and that through criminal-justice reform and immigration reform and softening on gays, that Republicans can have a new, diverse electorate, and we can all move into a happy, bipartisan future.
46% : No. 1 was, Donald Trump muddied the waters on his views.
44% : And then No. 3 is then if the theory of the case is a more electable person with someone that could get more distance from the Biden-Harris administration, that assumes that the Democratic voters were looking for somebody to do that.
44% : And that's particularly problematic, given the Senate and Electoral College and the way that's set up.
42% : But I think that there are two things, which is, No. 1, the Democrats are not well suited to running presidential elections right now, in this media environment, and then No. 2 is that the Democrats have abandoned huge parts of the country where they are not viable.
30% : That said, the one thing that I think is certain that the Democrats need to reflect on when it comes to this question of why Trump won and why Harris lost -- it's that the Democratic message is not landing outside of a particular demographic of middle- to upper-income, college-educated, not particularly religious, urban- and suburban-dwelling white Americans, in addition to Black women, right?
23% : And by he, I mean Trump is to blame for that.
10% : But Tim, right off the bat, I wanted to ask you: What's your perception of why Trump won and Harris lost?
9% : And so we're seeing a bunch of people arguing about why Trump won and why Harris lost in a time where there's a bunch of unknowns.

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