"In 2020, the percentage of Americans who wanted to decrease immigration was just 28%. By this year, it was 55%. When Kamala Harris went on The View and was asked how she would have differed from Biden, instead of basically saying nothing different, she should have said, I would have shut down the border early and hard."
. . ."The GPS host told his audience that there was no singular reason why Vice President Kamala Harris and down-ballot Democrats performed so poorly.
He categorized the election results as a reaction from an electorate that had grown tired of Democratic policies and the party’s messaging. He said Democrats misread the room on everything from diversity to their handling of immigration to a sentiment Trump was being persecuted by politically motivated criminal trials and proceedings.
“At first glance, it would seem easy to explain last year’s election as part of a 2024 global wave against incumbents beset by post-Covid turmoil and inflation,” Zakaria said.
He added that in his estimation, a Harris loss could have been “preordained” but that it was not the case – citing economic factors unique to the US.
After noting Trump was essentially spent as a political force after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, Zakaria walked his audience through polling that showed Trump continued to rise in polls while Democrats became overconfident.
“But they blew it,” he said. “The New York Times estimates that Harris will lose the national popular vote by about a point and a half, a first for Democrats since 2004.”
"Zakaria explained Democrats lost big last week for three key reasons:" . . .
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