There was no mandate for Trump. There was no red shift. There was only a blue abandonment

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The real mandate is for Democrats to stand for a fairer economy.
Robert Reich
Nov 14, 2024

Friends,

Trump is saying the election gave him a “very big mandate.”

Rubbish. It wasn’t a mandate at all. It wasn’t even a “red shift” to Trump and the Republicans.

It was a blue abandonment.

We now know that nine million fewer votes were cast nationwide in 2024 than in 2020.

Trump got about a million more votes than he did in 2020 (700,000 of them in the seven battleground states). That’s no big deal.

The bigger news is that Harris got 10 million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020 (400,000 fewer in the battleground states).

Harris campaigned hard in the battlegrounds, so her erosion from Biden’s vote there wasn’t nearly as much, proportionately, as it was everywhere else across the country.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/there-was-no-red-shift-there-was?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=151522579&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5slj1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Many years ago I had hoped the party would participate in more local radio and now podcast messaging. It seems that although many were not satisfied with where they stood economically if we could have pushed through the GOP noise machine, we could have had a better shot at keeping them and winning back their trust.