In a statement, the White House told the BBC that Trump had made clear that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
In a statement, the White House told the BBC that Trump had made clear that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
236M of America’s 343M residents were eligible to vote. So we’re talking about 70% of the population, baseline.
Of the eligible pool, only 174M were legally registered, because our voter registration system is archaic and deliberately exclusionary. We also nixed mail in voting after 2020, driving down participation for rural and minority communities enormously (because our voting infrastructure is dogshit). This depressed actual turnout to 153M.
Of that 153M, it broke out 77M Trump and 75M Kamala. But get under the hood and recognize only five states actually mattered by vote margin - Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Georgia. Every absent voter in California turning out for Harris couldn’t help her. Record turnout in Texas helped Trump more than Biden in 2020.
Of the five swing states, four (excluding Georgia) produced statewide wins for Democrats. These were winnable elections for Team D. They came within a razor thin margin - less than 2% of total votes each - at both Presidential and state levels.
And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.
Let that sink in.
Is that really surprising, considering that she said herself that she wouldn’t deviate from anything Biden did before?
Biden got an extra 6M votes.
Of course, Biden had to slog through a primary with stiff opposition from a socialist challenger. Meanwhile, Harris was handed the nomination absent any democratic input.
So, who can say?
Some other things to consider are misogyny and racism. I mean, at least in the US she is considered “black”.
States that happily vote for Joni Ernest and Sarah Huckabee Sanders don’t get to write themselves off as misogynist.
Conservatives that nominated Hershall Walker and Tim Scott and Wesley Hunt don’t get to hide behind the race card.
If Harris were a Republican, she’d be doing fine.
Either that or there was election fraud in the Presidential race that was absent in the down-ballot races.
I’m not saying I think that’s what happened, but I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant an investigation.