Republicans are still celebrating a decisive victory as President-elect Trump starts to make decisions about who will work with him starting in January.

On the other side of the aisle, Democrats are processing a decisive loss

and trying to figure out what went wrong for them in their bid to hold the White House.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. For Democrats, Kamala Harris's failure to capture

a majority of the electoral vote signals more than just a rushed or imperfect campaign.

Polling shows the Democrats' bleeding support from certain demographic categories whose support in the past had seemed almost inevitable, including black and Latino voters and young men.

So how did the Democrats miscalculate what the majority of Americans wanted or at least how to show they

were prepared to deliver it. Ken Thomas is White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal,

which published his article Harris's loss triggers soul-searching recriminations within the Democratic Party,

written with his colleague, Annie Lindski. Ken, welcome to think. It's great to be with you. Thanks.

So there are certainly multiple contributors to the Democrats losing the White House and what had

been a very slim advantage in the Senate. The first place we normally look is at the top of the

ticket, but of course before Kamala Harris, that spot was held by Joe Biden. Is there a lot of

blame being lobbed Biden's way by his own party?

Yeah, I think there is right now. I think there's a sense among Democrats that Kamala Harris was put in almost an unwinnable position, that if Biden had made a decision after the 2022 midterms not to run for

reelection, the party would have at least had an open process, an open primary process.

You would have seen, you know, perhaps a number of Democrats step forward to run for the nomination.

Instead, you know, Biden went through with this campaign, you know, even at the age of 81.

And when he pulled out in July, you know, there just a lot of time had elapsed.

And it really only gave Kamala Harris a little more than 100 days to run for president in her own right. And so I think, I think right now,

you know, there are a lot of, there are a lot of people who are upset and looking at the different reasons

that the party lost this presidential election.

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