Pin the fail on the donkey

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Democrats lost big on Election Day: the presidency, the Senate, and maybe the House too. Vox's Eric Levitz explains what went wrong, and political strategist Jeff Weaver imagines what comes next for the party. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Attendees during Vice President Kamala Harris' concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC. Photo by Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kamala Harris gave her concession speech at Howard University yesterday.
0:03.9	So I sent Sean down to ask her supporters two questions.
0:07.3	What do you think went wrong last night?
0:08.9	Everything.
0:10.9	I don't think anything went wrong.
0:12.6	I think that Donald Trump represents what America values, and I think that sucks.
0:16.6	I think a lot of things went wrong, but not necessarily just last night.
0:19.9	This Gaza war. She really didn't have a lot of time. There's a lot more things went wrong, but not necessarily just last night. This Gaza war.
0:21.0	She really didn't have a lot of time.
0:22.7	There's a lot more unity on the Republican side of things.
0:25.4	But, you know, Biden was not physically and emotionally and mentally up to the desk.
0:29.7	Democrat voter turnout.
0:30.7	I just think our male voters let us down.
0:32.5	Where do you think the Democratic Party needs to go from here?
0:35.3	More engagement.
0:36.3	I mean, I think Democrats need to inform themselves better of the stakes.
0:39.5	Clear, concise stances on policy.
0:42.5	We need to find the people because we're the ones who help people.
0:45.1	He's not the one who helps people.
0:46.8	And I think we need to become a little bit.
0:48.5	When they go low, we need to go under the ground.
0:52.7	We're going to pose those same two questions to two people who have been thinking a lot about the Democrats on today explained.
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