After Donald Trump’s decisive Election Day victory, Democratic politicians are analyzing why they’re short of their projected results and how Trump surpassed those projections, particularly with voter groups that were once firmly in the Democratic camp. In the 2024 election, Trump expanded his support beyond white, blue-collar male workers and made inroads into Democratic strongholds among young, Latino and Black male voters, securing wins in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman analyzes the results of the 2024 elections and concludes that widespread ignorance among U.S. voters led to this moment more than anything else.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
But what I really think this is about is ignorance for some, and people who genuinely love what Trump is offering for others. I’ll give you examples of both. We recently looked at interviews with young men voting Trump, and they were asked: “Why are you voting Trump?” And they said: “Because of the high gas prices.” Gas prices right now are at their post-pandemic low. Since the pandemic, gas prices have never been lower, within a few cents. They are simply voting on ignorance. They believe that gas prices are high, and that they would be lower under Trump. In reality, gas prices have come down and are at their post-pandemic low.
This is common. Millions and millions of people voted based on things they just got wrong. That’s it.
Secondly, we have to acknowledge it’s not Russian interference. It’s not [that] Kamala is a bad candidate. It’s not a bad ground game. There are tens of millions of people who want the convicted felon, civilly-liable sexual-assaulter, wanna-be dictator, authoritarian-to-be-president — they want him to go after his political enemies. They want him to go after media outlets unfriendly to him. They want all of it. And I disagree with those people. I think their values are un-American. I think that it’s bad for the country. But they want this.