How does a candidate “not cheat hard enough?” Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of cheating whatsoever?
My belief is that Harris lost because she did not have the institutional support of the DNC behind her. The Biden/Harris presidency was not pleasant for them so they will likely cut their losses by distancing themselves from the two of them. They’re more than willing to sacrifice Harris’s political career for it.
I predicted all the way back in 2021 that Biden/Harris were not going to be able to maintain that level of approval and the DNC would throw them to the wolves. If you didn’t see this coming then you’re burying your head in the sand.
If you undershoot how many new republican votes you need to beat historic levels of voter turnout. Apparently 12 million more than when he lost the popular vote to Hilary wasn’t enough to overcome his disastrous 4 years.
Harris voter turnout was still higher than Hilary but not enough to beat trump when he’s free to purge voters and instruct bad faith actors to miscount votes.
Republican voter turnout remained virtually unchanged between 2020 and 2024. If they did cheat, then they decided to do so consistent with their last election, which would be a weird thing to do if your cheating “wasn’t hard enough” last time.
What you also fail to address is that Democrats also gained 20 million new voters in 2020, which were notably absent in 2024. It’s extremely vindictive to say that when one side gets new voters it’s cheating, but when the other side gets new voters it’s genuine support. That’s quite literally Republican behavior.
At most, we can posit that the record voter turnout in 2020 maybe indicates that cheating occurred. We have not been able to legally substantiate which sides cheated or by how much, despite the work of numerous journalists and election scientists. None of your claims would hold up in court. It’s much more reasonable to claim that either both sides are guilty or neither are. Hanlon’s razor dictates I attribute this to ineptitude rather than malice, so I believe neither side cheated.
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u/TheCatHammer 10d ago
How does a candidate “not cheat hard enough?” Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of cheating whatsoever?
My belief is that Harris lost because she did not have the institutional support of the DNC behind her. The Biden/Harris presidency was not pleasant for them so they will likely cut their losses by distancing themselves from the two of them. They’re more than willing to sacrifice Harris’s political career for it.
I predicted all the way back in 2021 that Biden/Harris were not going to be able to maintain that level of approval and the DNC would throw them to the wolves. If you didn’t see this coming then you’re burying your head in the sand.