Trump, convicted felon. Harris, attorney general of California and prosecutor and vice president of america. This election wasn't about the candidates, it was about us, the American citizens and we failed each other because of our hatred for one another that these politicians bring to the table. Harris constantly talked about we the American people and ways to better our lives. Trump talked nothing but negative, how he is going to get his revenge on any and all of his perceived enemies and we elected the hater. Sad how so many people seem to be of the same cloth.
This election was more about the job the Biden administration had done over the last 4 years than about the candidates. It was in my opinion a rejection of that job performace, not an endorsement of Trump or the republicans. Only 41% of all Americans approved of the overall job Biden had done vs. 56% disapproval. On most issues, the Biden administration which Harris was part of as VP, between 55-65% of all Americans disapproved of Biden’s handling of those issues.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/approval-rating
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/issues
Given those numbers, this election shouldn’t have been close. But the GOP went with Trump who was disliked more than Harris as candidates go. I believe almost any other republican given the total disapproval of how the Biden administration handled his job, any other republican would have won in a landslide, instead of losing the popular vote by a mere 1.6 points, making it the third closest election since 1900. Only 1960 and 2000 were closer. That the republicans would have gained 30 or more seats in the house instead of losing one. Then there’s history, no sitting president has won reelection nor that sitting president’s replacement won the next election with an overall job approval of below 50%. The list.
1952 Truman 33%, his replacement Stevenson lost to Eisenhower
1968 LBJ 43%, his replacement Humphrey lost to Nixon
1976 Ford 45%, Ford lost reelection to Carter
1980 Carter 37%, Carter lost reelection to Reagan
1992 G.H.W. Bush 34%, Bush lost reelection to Bill Clinton
2008 G.W. Bush 28%, his replacement McCain lost to Obama
2020 Trump 43%, Trump lost reelection to Biden
2024 Biden 41%, his replacement Harris lost to Trump.
Harris had an impossible task ahead of her when she replaced Biden. The closeness of this election speaks far more about Trump than Harris. The democrats are lucky the GOP went with Trump, by doing that stopped a blowout, a republican landslide given the dissatisfaction of how Biden and company performed their job over the last 4 years.