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On a night where Democrats got little good news, however, the fact that New Mexico remains solidly blue was a favorable sign: the state often doesn't follow the trends we see from other states with lots of Hispanic voters,
Utah has gradually been getting more purple, between attracting a tech-sector workforce and Mormons not always being so keen on Trump,
New York City is a complex place with a recent history of electing mayors from both of the two parties. If you're interested understanding the 2024 election results in the city, looking to Mayor Adams 2021 victory would be a good guide,
Heath Brown, Associate Professor of Public Policy at John Jay College, told Newsweek Friday Neither party has offered easy solutions for affordable housing, education, or public safety, so, despite its majority in the city, the Democratic Party has work left to do to convince many voters in the future that they have earned their support,
(That ... That compensation) leads to issues of accuracy and representation,
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There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of — and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”
When asked whether there is anything she would have done differently than Biden over the past four years in an interview on The View in October, Harris responded Frustrations are being made clear in this rising percentage of Black voters [who are] taking a different look at the Republican Party in general, and are exploring some curiosities with Trump, despite his racial baggage,
said Adolphus Belk, a political science professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina, referring to a string of comments and actions by Trump that have bee criticised as racist over the years And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,
the former House speaker said in an interview with The New York Times, suggesting she had The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
She added during the interview, which will be published in full on Saturday Bernie Sanders has not won,
Americans were ready for a change, and Harris kept telling them that she represented one on the stump. But the hollowness of that promise was laid bare when, in a moment of weakness, she admitted that she couldn’t identify a single substantive difference between herself and her boss,
By that afternoon, up to 10 million voters received text messages containing the clip on their cellphones. Television ads broadcast it to tens of millions more over the following weeks,
There's a frustration by voters in New Jersey on economic stuff, on crime issues, and I also think there's an underbelly in the stuff Trump tapped into culturally,
Republican strategist Chris Russell told Politico That is a breakthrough for the Republicans at the presidential level,
New Mexico-based political columnist Joe Monahan told the Associated Press as ballots were being tallied The Democratic Party talks about helping the poor, but if you talk about Hudson County, it's segregated, and the working class and the liberal enclaves are basically the people who are supporting Wall Street in the places they can't afford the rent. There's no affordable housing,
I think clearly we've now seen as demonstrated by the exit polls, the people that were unhappy about the direction of the country, unhappy about the economy, they broke decisively against Harris,
It is very clear that Kamala Harris's association with Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris administration hurt her,
In general, for a Democratic candidate running in this environment, I think that would be challenging,
Doug Sosnik, a longtime advisor to Bill Clinton, told Business Insider
