3 reasons for Harris’ defeat of Trump

According to Isna, the famous Indian-American host and expert Farid Zakaria released a video of his analysis about the defeat of Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris against Donald Trump in the US presidential election and explained how the Democrats did not take it seriously for three main reasons. Immigrant concerns, capitalizing on allegations against Trump, and promoting “identity politics” lost the race.

This CNN expert says: The 2024 presidential election of the United States will be held amidst the turmoil that has plagued the countries of the world, including the defeat of the British Conservative Party in the national elections of this country, the collapse of the German coalition government, and the defeat of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party in the parliamentary elections of this country. , the victory of the South Korean opposition party in the parliamentary elections, the removal of the control of the majority of the Japanese House of Representatives from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party “LDP”, it is already possible It seemed predictable and Harris’ defeat was likely.

After reviewing Trump’s performance records in recent years, he said: Donald Trump has many capabilities as a political figure, but he also has many weaknesses. Let’s remember that after January 6, 2021, Trump’s approval rating reached 34% in a CNN poll, and a year later, in another poll, Biden won 43% of the voters’ votes compared to Trump’s 33%. They preferred him, he was the leader.

Pointing out that the Republicans performed very badly in the 2022 midterm elections, he said: Trump’s approval rating reached 31% in the CNN poll. His situation had disappointed even the Republicans. At this point, Trump was leading the Republican Party, which had lost the majority of the US House of Representatives in 2018.

Zakaria continued his explanations: Ron DeSantis, one of the candidates of the Republican Party, was leading among other Republicans in a Wall Street Journal poll in December. This was one of the most critical opportunities for the Democratic Party since Trump entered politics, but they missed it.

The hypocrisy of the Democrats

Zakaria explained: It was also difficult to control global inflation. But there were other factors at work about which the Democrats made big mistakes that enraged their opponents and weakened themselves. Their first mistake was to ignore the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos at the borders. A small asylum agency dedicated to wanted people was used by a million to enter legally. Instead of shutting it down, liberals called anyone who objected to it a bigot and a racist. In recent years, a major shift in American public opinion had eluded them.

In this regard, he stated: In 2020, the percentage of Americans who wanted to reduce the immigration rate was only 28%, but in 2024, it has reached 55%. When Harris was asked how he would perform differently than Biden, he basically had to say, “I’m going to close the borders immediately and strongly,” instead of saying it wouldn’t be any different.

Saying that the second mistake of the Democrats was “extreme abuse of the law to try Trump”, Zakaria explained: the most prominent case was under the supervision of Elvin Berg, the district attorney of Manhattan in New York, which he himself had doubts about. It is said that he was under pressure from one of the leftists to pursue it. Some cases were legal, like the Georgia case. But many of them felt that the judicial system was being used as a tool to arrest Trump. This showed that the Democrats were hypocrites who were willing to distort the rules and norms when it was in their interest.

Loser turns into a victim

In a CNN poll, a majority of 58% of voters believed that Trump believes there are threats to democracy. Trump turned from a loser to a victim. Donations to his campaign increased and his votes stabilized in the polls.

Referring to the victory of “identity politics” over the left wing of America as the last election error of the Democrats, the CNN reporter said: This led the left wing to insist on all policies of “Diversity, Equality and Inclusion” (DII), which is mostly caused by a thinking. It is an academic city but it made the main voters to be marginalized. This led Democrats to see too many people in terms of their ethnic, racial or gender identity, and the turning of working-class Latinos to Trump was far from their eyes.

Experience failure

In the end, Zakaria said: An easy way to think about the experience of this election and the lesson it taught us is that liberals cannot achieve their liberal goals through illiberal methods, no matter how true they are.

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