Democrats' future crisis: The biggest states that back them are shrinking

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Those seven battleground states had 93 electoral votes -- and Trump won all of them.
56% : All of them backed Trump for president last year, though Arizona and North Carolina were competitive, and all have Republican majorities in their U.S. House delegations.
52% : Democratic resurgence will require much more investment in state parties and a frank assessment of how to appeal to parts of the country that supported Trump, said James Skoufis, a New York state senator running to be chair of the Democratic National Committee.
47% : Biden urges incoming Democratic lawmakers to reach across the aisle during Trump's termWith America's population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans.
47% : Hispanic voters were more open to Trump than they were in 2020.
43% : But that fell apart when Trump and the GOP began making inroads with the Democrats' traditional working class base.
38% : A changing mapEntering Election Day, there was a broad consensus that Harris would comfortably win 226 electoral votes and Trump 219, with both campaigns fighting over seven battleground states to reach the 270 electoral votes required to win.
38% : Instead of a 306-232 victory, Biden would have beat Trump 292-246.

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