The re-election of Donald Trump makes me question this reality.
The states which rely the most on federal tax dollars for education and medicaid are red states. Trump ran on slashing medicaid funding and getting rid of the department of education.
Donald Trump's popularity skyrocketed over the last four years. This despite the fact:
- He continue to deny he lost the 2020 presidential election.
- Pledged to pardon the January 6th rioters.
- Found liable for sexual assault, sexual abuse, defamation of character, and causing injuries to E. Jean Carroll
- Found liable for over a billion dollars for tax and property fraud.
- Found guilty of 34 felonies for committing financial fraud.
- Went on national television and slandered Haitian Immigrants.
- Trump administration saw a decrease in manufacturing jobs, rise in trade deficits, and lost a trade war with China. While under Biden, manufacturing jobs went UP. GDP was higher under Biden than under Trump.
- Pledged to appoint a life-long anti-vaxxer and conspiracy-theorist as his HHS. This person has no medical or scientific education.
Lets also look at the fact that our country is obsessed with transgender people. This despite the fact they are about 0.5% of the U.S population. They are not sexually assaulting or peeping on people in the bathrooms or locker rooms. None of the states that have tried to ban transgender females from women's sports can produce a single example of a transgender female which dominated a single sport within their state. The President of the NCAA testified there are about 500k student-athletes in America, and less than 10 of them are transgender.
My question to you guys is, is it fair to question the intelligence of the American people? We certainly don't do our homework and allow terrible candidates (I am also referring to Hilary Clinton) to win over the population.
Is it wrong, no. But the questioning is done on a partisan basis. The democrats or Harris voters love to point out they won the college grad class whereas Trump won those without a college degree. Looking back through history, this sounds kind of elitist. From 1972 until 2008 when Obama won the college grad group, college grads had voted republican in every election. Romney won back college grads in 2012, but in 2016, 2020 and 2024 the democrat won all three. Non-college grads was a staple for the democratic party voting democratic in all elections since 1972 except for Reagan twice, 1980, 1984, back to voting democratic until 2004 then in 2008, 2012 voting democratic again. Then Trump took over winning the non-college grads three times, 2016,2020, 2024.
So much for the uneducated. Why did folks vote for Trump last year? By a margin of 48-24 the 48% stating their lives were better 4 years ago than today while the 24% said their lives were better today than 4 years ago. This played right into Biden’s overall job performance of having only 39% of all Americans approve, 57% disapprove. Most Americans thought Biden and the democrats did a poor job of governing. Time for a change. Those who approved of the job Biden and his administration had done voted for Harris 95-4 over Trump, those who disapproved voted for Trump 82-16 over Harris.
One needs to keep in mind that presidential elections are a referendum on the sitting president. Not on the challenger. No sitting president has won reelection nor has his replacement won the election when the sitting president’s overall job approval was 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 39%, his replacement Harris lost to Trump.
It is my opinion that the 2024 election was much more a rejection of Biden, his administration which Harris was part of than an endorsement of Trump. With Biden’s numbers the republicans should have won in a landslide, they didn’t. 2024 was the third closest election since 1888 with only 1960 and 2000 being closer. This says much more about Trump than Harris and the democrats. The fact Harris came as close as she did shows Trump was almost as unwanted as Harris was. Remember she only lost by 1.5 points, the democrats also gained two House seats, unheard of when a sitting president has a job approval of below 40%.
