The post-election report on the 2024 election has been a tough pill for the Democrat Party to swallow.
Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory has left the Democrat Party in ruins and scrambling for a quick fix.
And Kamala Harris’ handlers devastated her with a very public admission of this ugly fact she wasn’t prepared for.
Democrats’ tough math problem
David Plouffe was one of Barack Obama’s chief advisors.
And Plouffe was brought onboard to help run the Kamala Harris campaign after Obama and Nancy Pelosi successfully pressured Biden to drop out of the race.
Plouffe was one of the Kamala handlers who appeared post-election on the podcast Pod Save America to give their version of why Kamala’s campaign fell so far short of the mark.
Headed into November, there was much talk about the vaunted “blue wall states” of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The blue wall states were won by every Democrat presidential nominee between 1992 and 2012.
But then in 2016, Trump cracked the blue wall when he flipped all three, making the blue wall crumble.
Biden winning them back in 2020 handed him the White House.
The mainstream media endlessly speculated that Kamala Harris’ only path to victory was by holding the blue wall.
But Plouffe broke some bad news to both the media and to the Left.
The blue wall isn’t actually as blue as they think.
And that’s because Plouffe explained that conservatism is actually more popular than liberalism in the swing states.
“Let’s look at Pennsylvania. 25% of the electorate is liberal, roughly. 34% is conservative. By the way, in most battleground states, that conservative number is over 40. So, in every battleground state, there’s more conservative than liberals,” Plouffe began.
Democrats spent years telling themselves that open borders, the war in Ukraine, abortion-on-demand with no limits, and the radical transgender agenda were winning issues.
But now, one of the top strategists on the Left is breaking the news that the Left’s radical stances on these issues put their candidates behind the eight ball in states like the blue wall swing states.
Plouffe said for a Democrat to win Pennsylvania they have to clean up with moderate voters, something Kamala Harris couldn’t do because of her support for transgender surgeries for prisoners, banning fracking, and other loony left-wing positions she took when she ran for President in 2020.
“So, in Pennsylvania, if exits are believed, Trump won conservatives 91-8, Harris won liberals 93-6. Moderates, Harris won 56-43, but you kind of got to win 60% of them, right? For Democrats to win battleground states, it is a false choice,” Plouffe added.
An unpopular agenda spells defeat
Plouffe also noted Democrats had a major challenge turning out black men because Kamala Harris and her woke platform turned them off.
“You want to maximize your base, of course, and that was a place where we spent an enormous time, a lot of resources. That’s critical. And obviously, I think in Milwaukee, just to use that as an example, we hit our turnout targets. Fell a little bit short in Philly and Detroit, so that’s not good, that’s part of the equation,” Plouffe continued.
Plouffe went on to explain to the left-wing base that if the party hopes to win elections in 2026 and 2028 it needs to moderate and ditch its toxic leftist positions.
“You’ve got to couple that with dominating in the middle, not just winning it a little. We have to dominate the moderate vote, and I think as we look ahead to ’26 and ’28, particularly where you have seen drift amongst non-college voters generally – particularly those of color, specifically – we obviously have to get some of that back,” Plouffe concluded.
Plouffe is right, but it’s anyone’s guess if the Democrat elitists will listen.
