Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Probably also have to take into account that Twitter are changing their TOS to mean all your content will be used as AI training for Twitter's AI "Grok", and Musk is currently trying to say that you can give your medical symptoms, PET, MRI scans etc to Grok and it can diagnose you. So I'm sure some people want the freedom to post that they shat themselves after eating too much KFC without training Grok to recommend to constipated people that they go to KFC.

That's a part of it.

A bigger part of it is no-one really knew what her policies were, or what she was standing for other than being being not-Trump.

And an even bigger part of it was that voters simply didn't trust her on the economic side of things as it has hurt them in recent years, or believed she was going to improve their lot.

Well NYT today, people were questioning what i was pointing at yesterday

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/us/politics/democrats-trump-harris-turnout.html

Voters in liberal strongholds across the country, from city centers to suburban stretches, failed to show up to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris at the levels they had for Joseph R. Biden Jr. four years earlier, contributing significantly to her defeat by Donald J. Trump, according to a New York Times analysis of preliminary election data.

I am anti Trump because he is a despicable human turd 💩

But still it’s hard to have any sympathy for democrats who stayed home or voted against Kamala “because Gaza”, there hasn’t been that level of nose cutting to spite face since Brexit

Alot of the people I saw who are moving across , Carol Vorderman, Mehdi Hassan etc are constantly pushing politics on people so they don't just want a nice and happy social media platform free from politics they just don't want people calling them out on their nonsense constantly.

Fair enough for people who just want harmless content etc but when it's actually people who are engaged in political discussion constantly then they should be called out for just not liking their opinions being challenged.

Not to mention the absolute bombardment of the worst ads and promoted tweets; usually either crypto scams (often using Musk's own image and purporting to be from him as Musk seemingly can't even stop scambots using his image on his own platform), someone promoting their generic "philosophy", or dropshipping nonsense of stupid Temu junk or whatever.

At this stage I myself am considering jumping over to Bluesky. I don't post on my Twitter anyway, only use it for the Following tab. The replies pretty much to every post from someone reasonably well known tends to just be an absolute septic tank.

And I'd say everyone who has something that is their pet subject is extrapolating something that relates to the topic. Either way, the US is gonna become a far more inhospitable place for minorities and I wouldn't be viewing it as a victory against wokeism.

Trump has made a lot of mental promises on his way to the White House.

The loons and criminals he cosied up to have the receipts.

First up Pardoning the January 6th "Hostages".

The leader of the GOP, the party who is tough on crime.

I wouldn't say it's some particularly left wing position to have an issue with avowed white supremacists being on the platform. A platform happily boosting the likes of Fuentes and Loomer is one I'm happy to not be a part of. Going forward I'd be more concerned about how it's used by Musk in terms of breaching privacy and simply for propaganda.

Further evidence Muslim Americans voted for Trump and in for a shock

It's not surprising they're worried because they've been convinced by the likes of CNN and hysterics on tik tok that they'll be put in camps or rounded up to be killed. And now cnn are telling them to cut off their families when many of them seem to be suffering from mental health crises. What could possibly go wrong?

1 : What was the size of the group that changed their vote from 2020 to 2024 away from voting Dem?

I have no idea. Neither does anyone else yet.

2: Is it a disparate group or a coherent group ?

More than likely a disparate group made up of people who are completely disillusioned with the American body politic. Disillusioned because they see it as inherently corrupt and ineffective for them and the people on the lowest rungs of society. And those rungs are becoming more and more numerous on the societal ladder.

The Biden Administration has an impressive set of data on paper. America's GDP looks great, the economy is doing pretty well and they've recovered from the very high inflationary period ushered in post-Covid. Unemployment is the lowest in a half a century and he presided over the biggest drop in child poverty since records began.

However, none of that matters when you can't afford the grocery bill, or your rent, or your petrol. And that's what people understand. A fine set of data on paper and an improving economy means nothing if your pocket economy is still looking unhealthy, and for too many Americans that's the case year on year.

So, I would suggest that there are many millions of Americans who have simply withdrawn from politics because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that it doesn't matter who's in the White House nothing will really change, because neither party is truly interested in change.

3 : What does "far left" mean in terms of American politics? (does it have several meanings and are they objective or subjective ?)

I don't think "far left" means anything in terms of American politics. It's simply a label that's applied to people that another group of people don't like. As I said, Joe Biden is considered to be "far left" by some people over there, which is patently ridiculous. There is no real left of any hue in American political circles because the country has never fostered one in the manner that Europe did. They'll never have a national health service, for instance, or a truly effective welfare system either. If you not doing well in America you'll be left to rot, because as a country they just don't have the same political social norms as western Europe.

Most people in western Europe look at America and they like the glossy stuff, the razzmatazz, the glitz, etc. But when the curtain is lifted the flipside doesn't look all that appealing. The States can be great if you're doing relatively well, but as soon as you're not it doesn't give a damn about you. And people can find themselves in trouble over there pretty quickly. Just get sick, or lose your job, or be on the end of a divorce.

America is, in many ways, the land of Libertarian politics (despite the actual Libertarian Party being relatively small). It's the land of I'm Alright Jack.

They have a video on CNN where Ocasio Cortez asks some of her voters why they voted for her but also for Trump and one said that they both "cared about the working class"

Because desperate people have fallen for lies and you can't fight Donald Trump's blatant lies with just offering a message of "Well I'm not Trump" which, at the end of the day, was really all that the Harris campaign was offering to people.

That, in and of itself, may be a good enough reason to vote for her. But for millions of Americans it clearly wasn't.

I think that’s against the rules of this site, there’s a few common ways bypass soft paywalls 😉

The GOP has spent 215 million dollars on attack ads against trans rights this election cycle. Firstly, that clip is an excerpt from the interview and I'm guessing the recommendation is based on family members who are very much so radicalised by Trumpism. Such people will happily espouse anti LGBT propaganda and it wouldn't be unusual for a counselor to recommend reducing contact, setting new boundaries or outright cutting out such family members cause they are perfectly capable of negatively impacting one's mental health.(Moreso even)

For the record, I have one US family member who has turned his life upside down because of Trumpism, I honestly dread to think what he'd say if one of his children turned out to be LGBT.

The US economy has been performing really well post-Covid, and that should have benefited Harris and the Democrats generally. Consider this from The Eonomist just prior to the election

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/10/27/americas-glorious-economy-should-help-kamala-harris

This sounds so ironic in retrospect. Also, earnings, especially for the less-skilled and lower-paid have been rising faster than average. To me it seems a terrible failure in communication by the Dems: failure to ram home the truth that wages have been rising faster than prices, and that therefore real incomes have been increasing. All we seem to have heard was "inflation may have fallen but prices are still too high": dreadful economic illiteracy which was not rebutted.

They say a picture paints a thousand words, its certainly true in this case.

Look at all the States Harris won where No ID and Non Photo ID is required to vote.

No wonder the Republicans want to introduce photo ID requirements for voting.

Meanwhile Judge Juan Merchan has just agreed to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case while the Manhattan district attorney’s office and president-elect’s lawyers decide how to proceed now that Trump has been reelected.

Had Trump lost last week, there is no question that they would have tried to jail him. Now they don't know what to do, they're trying to wiggle out of this and save face.