What went right for Trump, what went wrong for Harris?
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
President-elect Donald Trump is on track to be the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. He won all the battleground states, knocking down the previous blue wall. Was this a referendum on the style of leadership the country desires? Trump outperformed his 2020 candidacy, while Kamala Harris underperformed in states President Joe Biden previously won.
Donald Trump did better than anticipated with Latinos, Black men, and blue-collar workers. That success with key demographics led to his decisive victory. In the wake of the election, there is a close examination of Democratic strategy. What went wrong for Democrats? How did the party end up ceding its multicultural, working-class strongholds to Trump and the modern GOP? Will the loss shift the approach of Democratic strategists moving forward?
The presidency wasn’t the only conservative victory on election night. It’s still too close to call the House, but Republicans are expecting to pair their White House win with control of Congress and a conservative Supreme Court. The Left, Right, and Center team discusses what a largely red executive, legislative, and judicial branch could mean for the country.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody. Welcome to the show. It is left, right, and center. I am David Green. Moa Lathie and Sarah Isgir are both here. What a week. We have a new president-elect. Donald Trump is going to be returning to the White House. He was the 45th president of the United States and will soon be the 47th president of the United States. |
| 0:22.0 | It was a decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election. |
| 0:26.2 | I say decisive because President-elect Trump swept the battleground states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, the blue wall, all of them, and appears on track to win the popular vote. And that would make him the |
| 0:40.1 | first Republican to do so since George W. Bush's incumbent candidacy. Donald Trump was triumphant. |
| 0:47.0 | He brought quite a posse on stage with him for his victory, remarked late in the evening, |
| 0:53.3 | including his family advisors, a golf pro. |
| 0:57.8 | It was quite a group. |
| 0:59.1 | And here's part of what he said. |
| 1:00.3 | This will truly be the golden age of America. |
| 1:04.3 | That's what we have to know. |
| 1:09.3 | This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again. |
| 1:19.1 | We have so much to talk about. |
| 1:22.0 | This has been a week. |
| 1:23.4 | I think it's been an exuberant, emboldening last few days since the election for a lot of people. |
| 1:30.7 | It has been painful, soul-searching for a lot of people in the United States. |
| 1:35.6 | I hope you all know that if you're looking for, you know, a bit of time to just kind of take a breath, |
| 1:41.1 | digest this together in a safe space and listen to different perspectives. |
| 1:46.1 | That's what we hope is this show for all of you. |
| 1:48.8 | And Mo, Sarah, I am grateful for both of you to spend times like this together to kind of take in a big newsweek and talk about what it all means. |
| 1:57.1 | So thank you both for being here. |
| 1:59.1 | Always a treat to talk to you guys. |
| 2:00.7 | We haven't actually – normally we would be texting on election night. |
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