A Message Sent No One Heard
Donald Trump is the President-elect for the second time! His will be the second split-presidency incumbent nominee since Grover Cleveland.
But last Tuesday night was not just 312-to-226 Electoral College blowout, but with Trump receiving 74,708,855 (and growing) vs Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70,980,347. The former 45th President also won the Popular Vote in a blowout for the GOP not seen since President Reagan’s 1984 landslide victory.
The Associated Press delves further:
Slightly more than 8 in 10 Trump voters in this election were white, roughly in line with 2020. About two-thirds of Harris’ voters were white, and that largely matched President Joe Biden ’s coalition in the last election. White voters make up a bulk of the voting electorate in the United States, and they did not shift their support significantly at the national level compared to 2020.
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This is only this tip of the proverbial iceberg. Additionally, in the November 2024 Election, Donald Trump carried:
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- One-Third (that is 1-out-of-3) of African-American Men;
- Over Half of the Hispanic Men (53%);
- Nearly HALF of Hispanic WOMEN (48%).
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Washington Post assumes to explain the Trump 2024 strategy:
Rather than chase traditional Republican constituencies such as suburban and college-educated women who were drifting away from Trump, his advisers bet on activating young men, Black men and Latino men, who historically voted less reliably. With that goal, Trump sought out predominantly male audiences in nonpolitical settings such as mixed martial arts matches, a car race and podcasts recommended by his 18-year-old son, Barron.
Preliminary exit polls showed signs of that gamble paying off. First-time voters made up a smaller share of the electorate than in 2020, but this time they narrowly favored Trump. In 2020, the group preferred Biden two to one.
This election was not just a blowout, it was a referendum!
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UK Guardian looked into this unprecedented political shift:
His victory, fueled largely by support from Latino and Hispanic voters, particularly Latino men, was repeated in county after county in swing states as the Democrats’ blue wall crumbled and it became clear Trump would once again be president.
Guillermo Grenier, professor of sociology at Florida International University, points to the “arrogance” of Democrats in assuming Latinos, and other minority voting groups would gravitate towards them.
Fault, they say, can be attributed to Democrats’ failure to understand the nuances of the Hispanic and Latino voting populations. There were clear signs as early as January that then candidate Joe Biden’s support from that demographic had cratered, and Trump’s was rising.
Meanwhile, Grenier also sees Latino voters frustrated when they feel they are being patronized.
Ultimately, it was Republicans’ economic messaging that broke through most, several experts said. That was then combined with an admiration for Trump’s bombastic and pugnacious style among Latino men who, as much as white men and women who form his base, have no problem with his insults, racism and threats, because they don’t believe he is talking about them.
A “Racist” Point-of-View
The liberal talking head pundits on the ‘alphabet’ networks are hyperventilating trying to comprehend how Donald Trump could have won a SECOND time? It appears that they have found their boogeyman, which ought to come as no surprise, and serves their equivalent to the ‘usual suspects’: The pro-Trump Racists!
Wait! For their 2024 postelection dire is not aim at the stereotypical ‘right-wing’: red MAGA hat wearing, Tea Partiers, pro-Second Amendment gun-loving, NASCAR fan, country music listening, gas-guzzling pickup truck driving, ‘grill-it’ BBQing, football lovin’, red-blooded Americans!
They have a NEW target for their liberal hate: Black and Hispanic ‘Racists! (that was not a type-o)
The media is openly arguing that Black and Hispanic men were not educated enough and/or too misogynistic to vote for Kamala Harris. The tone for the new talking points began with former Obama advisor David Axelrod on the Election Night panel with CNN:
“There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there is racial bias in this country and there is sexism in this country, and anybody who thinks that that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong,” Axelrod said.
“I am not saying that was the main reason that Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won,” he said, noting that the Trump “ran, honestly, strategically,” and a “very smart campaign.”
“It was ultimately a rational, well-conceived and well-executed campaign for an often irrational candidate, and they overcame him to sell his message or the message that they thought he should be selling to the country,” Axelrod said.
“But let‘s not confuse what this was and wasn‘t,” he added. “Let‘s be very clear-eyed about it.”
Co-panalest Van Jones echoed Axelrod’s frustration, explaining that there were limitations for candidates of color.
Jones suggested that despite Harris’ qualifications as a prosecutor, senator and vice president, her defeat reflects society’s bias.
“She is not Oprah or Beyoncé,” he concluded.
Morning ‘Joke’ picked up the baton going on a tirade that was reported by the UK Daily Mail:
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has claimed ‘racist Hispanics’ and ‘sexist black men’ are to blame for Kamala Harris’ electoral loss.
The Morning Joe host made the controversial claim on Wednesday as he discussed Donald Trump’s landslide win for the White House.
Speaking to Rev Al Sharpton, Scarborough – who earlier appeared to accept the result – said ‘Democrats need to be mature, and they need to be honest.
‘And they need to say, “Yes, there is misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men…
‘It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men – things we’ve all been talking about – who do not want a woman leading them.’
Scarborough, an ex-Republican, continued his rant: ‘but is not just misogyny from Hispanic men, from black men,
‘[There] might be race issues with Hispanics that don’t want a black woman president of the United States.’
‘It’s time for the Democrats to say … a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates,’ Scarborough said.
Sharpton, a civil rights leader, then stepped in and spoke of the misogyny he has apparently seen among black men.
‘Some of the most misogynist things I’ve heard, going on this ‘Get Out the Vote’ tour, came from black men,’ the activist continued.
‘So you’re absolutely right, it’s not simplistic.’
Elsewhere, the daily morning trainwreck, otherwise known as ‘The View’, were not about to be outdone. Cohosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar were in a race to see who could make the dumber comment.
As Entertainment Weekly writes:
Sunny Hostin said she’d like to “reframe the conversation” and shift blame to bigger social issues in the country at large. “The more relevant question is, what is wrong with America? What is wrong with our country, that the Republican party would choose as a candidate and support a candidate who is an insurrectionist, who is an election denier, who is a twice-impeached, 34-count convicted felon,” said Hostin, 56.
“What is wrong with this country that they would choose a message of divisiveness, of xenophobia, of racism, of misogyny, over a message of inclusiveness, a message for the people, by the people, of the people? That’s what the problem is. It’s the Republican party.”
35-year-old Alyssa Farah Griffin then pointed out to Hostin that Trump not only triumphed in the electoral tally, but also won the popular vote. “Well, then, what’s wrong with America?” Hostin replied, prompting Joy Behar, 82, to point out Democrats’ work in implementing Obamacare, fighting to protect Medicaid, and more — all of which, she said, indicate a willingness to protect blue-collar people in the United States.
“Joy, it’s condescending. They way that the left speaks to its voters, it really is,” panelist Sara Haines, 47, added, taking issue with Democrats’ messaging.
Hostin jumped in to ask, “the message of joy and inclusiveness?” and Haines pushed back, stating, “No, the message of not being educated, being dumb, and [asking] what’s wrong with America.”
Behar asked Haines who endorsed a message like that, with Griffin throwing up her hands and laughing as she said, “Sunny just did!”
Haines continued, stressing, “My point is, I don’t blame Joe Biden, I don’t blame Kamala Harris, go back as far as you want, I blame a messaging within the Democratic party,” though Hostin cut her off to ask, “You don’t blame the Republican party at all?”
Griffin spoke over Hostin, asking, “So you think America is the problem?” — a sentiment echoed again by Haines, when she asked, “So, America is the problem and voters are the problem?”
Friday’s heated debate came one day after Griffin snapped after Hostin said “misogyny” was to blame for Latinos voting for Trump in certain southern districts.
Upon hearing all of the nonstop xenophobic race-baiting bemoaning, the Las Vegas Review Journal retorted:
These responses expose the bankruptcy of the left’s DEI worldview, which focuses exclusively on intersectional victim groups. Many leftists can’t comprehend why minority voters want to improve America’s border security rather than tear down the county’s institutions.
This reaction is so pathetic that Sen. Bernie Sanders sounds like the left’s voice of reason. He blasted the Democratic Party for increasingly becoming “a party of identity politics,” while abandoning the working class.
Trump remade the Republican base into a multiracial coalition of middle-class families and blue-collar workers. They love America, faith, traditional values and freedom. These voters are worried about illegal immigration, inflation and wokeism. They oppose the cultural elites who want to silence people for wrongthink.
There’s a challenge here. Many of Trump’s Nevada voters didn’t vote down the ticket for Republicans such as GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown. These voters like Trump but aren’t sure about other GOP politicians. Because many have been voting Democrat for years or not voting, that’s understandable. But the opportunity should be obvious. Conservative Hispanic and Black Americans represent the next key group of Republican voters. Trump remade the Republican coalition.
While Democrats insult these minority voters, Republicans must continue aggressively pursuing them.
Clock Is Ticking, America Is Watching
Most importantly, in this election there was a mandate set. Trump and the Republican-led Congress will have two years to deliver results on his promises before the 2026 midterms. Will Speaker Johnson and the new Republican Senate Leader work with the Second Trump Administration, or will they make the same mistakes as Paul Ryan choosing to be adversarial, and risk similar consequences?
Never-Trumpers were you watching? DC establishment swamp did you get the message? Democrats…(the message is clear): You have failed this country!
For as another former president was once famously quoted:
“Elections Have Consequences.”
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