Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

I guess its possible that the various democrats, strategists and analysts are all wrong and that Newsom is on the wrong track. (In which case that doesn't bode well for his 2028 bid)

But looking into it, Palast points to four states as where such activites he claims cost the election. Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, 60 votes between them. 42 would have had to flipped.

The argument may hold more weight in states under Republican control and in which Democrats did not win the elections.

Michigan, for example, had a Democratic governor, a democratic state house and a democratic state senate. This complete Democrat control, we are expected to believe, managed to stack the deck in favor of Trump by setting the rules to purge sufficient Democrat voters that in the statewide election of November 2024, the voters of Michigan elected a Democrat senator, at the same time as a Republican president. And for those who might claim misogyny, the Democrat was a woman, the Republican a man.

Wisconsin, also under a Democrat governor, faced a tougher challenge for the forces of fairness. The State house and senate were both under Republican control. Using their nefarious powers (insufficient to override the governor), they managed to stack the deck sufficiently that not only did they lose seats to Democrats in both houses, but they also managed to see their man lose in the statewide election for US senator to the Democrat woman.

Those two states alone account for sufficient EC votes that the election would have been decided.

The voters of the state were happy enough to vote for Democrats. Without having looked into their policies, i would assume that those democrats who won had positions and were closer in attitude to those of their voters than Harris, otherwise they would have failed as Harris did. How does Palast explain the difference in success between Democrat senate candidates and the failure of the Democrat Presidential candidate out of the exact same voting population who voted? I submit it likely that the voters did not connect with Harris and her message, something which Duckworth and Slotkin seem to have managed.