Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped - and Trump offered a way out | Aditya Chakrabortty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : The tech bros will suckle on government subsidies, while the suits from private equity get to set government policy.
61% : Kamala Harris won the most affluent voters, while Trump took those earning between $50,000 (£39,000) and $100,000 (£77,000).
60% : Nor would it be to roll back all the benefits extended over the pandemic: the improved child tax credit, Medicaid and unemployment insurance.
60% : Not to mention that Trump is easily the richest man ever to serve in the White House, with a personal net worth of about $5.5bn (£4.3bn).
58% : They worried about the future of "democracy"; they warned about disrupting free trade.
49% : This lot have shelled out a lot more to get in Trump (Musk alone has spent an estimated $100m), and expect their money's worth.
40% : She went policy-lite, so as to present Trump with less of a target.
35% : "Trump has reportedly lined up Musk to become his "secretary of cost cutting", while in April, the US's next president demanded oil executives give him $1bn to beat the Democrats.
31% : A marketing man, skilled at targeting discontent, Trump does not follow his crowds.
30% : "They're less concerned about the photo op and a visit to the White House," as one former bagman for Trump told the New Yorker.
23% : Trump will almost certainly plunder from the budgets for social security and Medicaid.
18% : Never mind that last night's exit polls showed Trump as personally less popular than Harris, or that more than half of voters judge his views to be "too extreme".

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