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How Democrats Made It Easy for Trump
Why the 2024 election’s outcome was uniquely foreseeable.
Democrats Walked Into a Trap Republicans Set for Them
They walked into the trap of defending the very institutions most Americans distrust.
TL;DR: Blame Biden
Trump is on track to win the popular vote. There’s a lesson there.
How Democrats Made It Easy for Trump
Why the 2024 election’s outcome was uniquely foreseeable.
On the Ballot, Abortion Rights Proved More Popular Than Kamala Harris
In states like Arizona and Nevada, some voters split their tickets, supporting abortion rights measures while also backing Donald Trump.
Supporters celebrated in Phoenix on Tuesday after learning that Arizona voters had approved an abortion rights ballot measure.
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Where Does This Leave Democrats?
The coalition the Democratic Party built in the Obama years has crumbled. But Democrats can choose how to respond.
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Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?
Donald Trump is a monstrous narcissist, but there’s something off about an educated class that looks in the mirror of society and sees only itself.
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After Harris’s Election Loss, Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game
In interviews, lawmakers and strategists tried to explain Kamala Harris’s defeat, pointing to misinformation, the Gaza war, a toxic Democratic brand and the party’s approach to transgender issues.
Vice President Kamala Harris performed worse than President Biden did four years ago across the country, in cities, suburbs and rural towns.
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Kamala Harris Took Women for Granted
Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.
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Democrats Begin the Blame Game, and What Happens to Trump’s Legal Woes
Plus, pickleball’s Super Bowl.
“While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,” Vice President Kamala Harris told supporters on Wednesday.
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Democratic Voters Are Exhausted After This Election. What Happens Next?
Many who became activists during the first Trump administration are questioning if they can summon the strength to do it all over again.
Kamala Harris’s supporters at an election night party on Tuesday at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Trump’s Narrow Loss in New Jersey Signals a Shift to the Right
In New Jersey, Democrats outnumber Republicans and control every branch of government. But Tuesday’s vote reflected a shift to the right.
Voters in Hoboken, N.J., on Tuesday. The number of voters who cast ballots for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, fell precipitously in 2024 compared with when President Biden ran in 2020.
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Kamala Harris Was the Establishment in an Anti-Establishment Election
It was the wrong time to be the defender and champion of the country’s governing establishment.
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Kamala Harris Failed to Read the Room
It was the wrong time to be the defender and champion of the country’s governing establishment.
Where Does This Leave Democrats?
The coalition the Democratic Party built in the Obama years has crumbled. But Democrats can choose how to respond.
Kamala Harris Took Women for Granted
Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.
A Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffers a Humiliating Defeat
Democrats may feel righteous, but how’s that ever going to be a winning electoral look?
Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?
Donald Trump is a monstrous narcissist, but there’s something off about an educated class that looks in the mirror of society and sees only itself.
How Harris’s Loss Could Haunt Biden’s Legacy
In the wake of Donald J. Trump’s resounding victory, many Democrats are casting President Biden as a one-term president who set his party on a path to failure in 2024.
Many Democrats said they were angry that President Biden’s timing to drop out of the race left just months for Vice President Kamala Harris to mount a campaign.
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Why Harris’s Push for Democracy Didn’t Land With Voters
In more than 200 interviews, voters worried not about an endangered country, but about paying rent.
Warnings that President-elect Donald J. Trump was a threat to the country’s principles mattered less than the more tangible issue of the economy.
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Voters Were Fed Up Over Immigration. They Voted for Trump.
Voters across party lines shifted to the right on immigration. They blamed Biden-Harris for failing to control the chaotic border.
The surge in migration, which reached record levels during the Biden administration, hardened many Americans’ views on immigration.
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It’s This Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World
You can’t count him out, sadly.
Trump at his victory party Wednesday morning.
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My Manifesto for Despairing Democrats
Here’s how to be a watchdog, not a lap dog, for the next four tumultuous years, while holding on to your sanity.
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My Manifesto for Despairing Democrats
Here’s how to be a watchdog, not a lap dog, for the next four tumultuous years, while holding on to your sanity.
Republicans Make Early Inroads in Their Fight to Keep the House Majority
Democrats picked up two seats in New York and defended others in Michigan and New Mexico, but Republican gains have narrowed their path, setting up a potential G.O.P. trifecta.
“Republicans are poised to have unified government,” Speaker Mike Johnson predicted on Wednesday.
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Trumpism Is Not a Fad
Why America went with Trump, again.
The Real Reason Harris and the Democrats Lost to Trump
This election wasn’t just about the candidates
This Is Why Trump Won
A vote for Trump meant a vote to evict a failed leadership class from power.
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