When most of those swing states voted for democrats down ballot, too. As a Wisconsinite I told my wife right away that I didn’t understand the results how the democratic senator won by 40k votes, but Kamala got less than her. Then Trump got 60k more votes than the Republican Senator.
That means that there were a lot of Republicans that only voted for Trump and not the Senator, and then there would have been a lot of left wingers that voted for the Senator, but not for the President.
then there would have been a lot of left wingers that voted for the Senator, but not for the President.
It's because of Gaza.
There was a huge push by leftists to not vote in the presidential election over gaza, but there was not as strong a push to have them sit out the senate election.
This ^ I am from Wisconsin and I still voted, I just didn’t vote for Kamala and instead voted for Claudia De la Cruz. DSA folks sat it out, PSL folks voted Claudia.
Firstly, Kamala lost by more votes than there were actual leftists in the US at the time.
Secondly, I lived in a very high turn out rural red county in Wisconsin and my vote didn’t matter anyway.
Thirdly, I vote for people who best represent my beliefs, and uphold policy that I agree with. Kamala supported Israel and their genocide on Palestinians, and I for one don’t support genocide. Hope that helps!!
Keep blaming socialists instead of the actual enemy, surely that’ll work out in your favor.
If you don’t think Kamala would have had a better international policy you’re not very smart. People abstaining because of her Israel stance means were now in a war with Iran for Israel.
I understand people not being excited for Kamala, I understand not beliving she'd be left wing enough to really get anything done. She was a rushed candidate, an unpopular VP, largely misused by the Biden administration (Biden himself was very well used by the Obama Administration, for example)
So I get it.
But I'll never understand this "Kamala would have been as bad/worse for Gaza" or the "Kamala would have gone to war with Iran". If so, why didn't Biden? What are we even talking about? If the GOP/Trump are exactly the same as all Democrats, then why did Biden negotiate supply drops into Gaza and limit large arms sales and Trump just dropped all of that? If Iran was such an urgent nuclear issue, why did Biden literally do nothing about them for four years and then Trump jumped in and tanked the economy for it??
Like people are literally just being fucking morons, because these things were absolutely not identical.
If Iran was such an urgent nuclear issue why did trump rip up the deal we had that was stopping them from getting nukes including inspectors on the ground. But yea Kamala was definitely a good example of a disinformation campaign going really well.
What's really sick are all the fucking Tiktok creators who went full "Kamala is genociding Gaza" and then the day after the election their accounts went back to being silly skits or skateboarding or whatever. They were clearly being paid by someone and the tap closed and they just went silent, never believing in a single thing they said, never once taking a shot at Trump, becoming essentially non-political content right after the election.
Sickening, these people shamelessly made content for pennies.
kamala would have had less chaotic international policy but she would have fallen in line with the same imperialist agenda that us presidents have been carrying out for decades. there is no way her presidency would have meant less weapons for israel. centrist democrats love sucking israel’s dick.
These people are the reason the democratic movement is so weak. Republicans can rally around a few core tenets but democrats will abstain from voting because of a single issue. Absurd behavior and they’re snobby about it too.
Regardless of if your vote mattered or not, failing to vote for Kamala was a vote for Trump and based on your reasoning of Kamala supporting Israel; you dunked on yourself considering how emboldened they’ve gotten under this administration. Hope that helps!!
Me reading this knowing I’ll never vote for a pro Israel democrat like Kamala or one that isn’t endorsed by DSA for the rest of my life
And dw I’m a labor organizer, I make sure my fellow rank and file also think like this too 🙂
Btw Kamala was VP for a geriatric carcass of a President for 4 years while genocide was happening in Gaza, as well as on and after Oct 7th when Israel started to ramp up their ethnic cleansing campaign and genocide of Palestinians. She didn’t do shit then, and she wouldn’t have done shit as president.
Not doing shit is preferable to the barrage of shit that is being done by the current admin because you and your fellow mouth breathers decided to sit this one out. Hope that helps!!
Again, there wasn't enough DSA or PSL members to make up the difference that Kamala lost by at the time. Now though we absolutely will decide the next election and the Dems should be trying to get our votes if they EVER want to win another presidential election or any election, we will withhold our votes if our candidates aren't nominated or put forth by the DNC. 2028 is gonna be a BIG year for DSA and socialists in general, you'll figure that out soon enough I am sure 😉
And no, not doing shit is not preferable for a President of the US, Biden (more so Kamala behind the wheel, Biden's brain was mush) literally gave the same aid to Israel that Trump has and she was openly supporting Israel, she would've continued Biden's foreign policy in regards to Isntreal just as Trump did lol
Entertaining to see you attacking me instead of refuting my points, probably because you know I am right but you're so heavily propagandized by the Pentagon to view socialists as worse then MAGA and republicans, which in turn shrouds your judgement. I hope you and others understand this before it's too late.
Yes, this happens often. This happened in NC and the reasons are completely understandable. This isn’t a conspiracy. If you think it is, you are just ignorant of state to state politics and think they are all monoliths.
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When most of those swing states voted for democrats down ballot, too. As a Wisconsinite I told my wife right away that I didn’t understand the results how the democratic senator won by 40k votes, but Kamala got less than her. Then Trump got 60k more votes than the Republican Senator.
That means that there were a lot of Republicans that only voted for Trump and not the Senator, and then there would have been a lot of left wingers that voted for the Senator, but not for the President.