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The right won. They had more votes because many who voted democrat in 2020 voted red. How does going further left change that outcome?

If voters wanted politicians that are further left then wouldn’t they have voted for the politician that is furthest left?

I think most people just voted republican because they experienced inflation under Biden and dont understand why.

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This is factually false. Trump received no more vote really than he did the last 2 times. Dem voters simply stayed home.

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It’s not soorts teams. Going further left means reaching rural people and poor people. A lot of the working class just isn’t aware of what left and right mean. If the left let’s republican dictate who is taking those ppl’s side this is how it’s auways gonna end. Posh elitism has failed yet again

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There was an election between an independent union leader and a career politician in Nebraska and the career politician won by a landslide. How do you explain that?

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The career politician ran a better campaign and lied more believably.

Also not all union leaders are left wing, paradoxically. There are legitimate reasons that Americans distrust unions.

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One example does not a rule make, and in the US electoral system money (and the party affiliations that bring it) speaks loudest of all. Maybe going further left wouldn’t work, but going further right certainly hasn’t. When Harris first emerged as the candidate she had such a swell of support, as she moved further right she lost it.

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Nebraska isn’t a homestead of liberal ideals?

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How does Bernie win again and again then?

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He hasnt been able to win outside of Vermont. Even when he lost the primaries he it was because he didn’t have enough votes.

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Well he did until the DNC scuttled his momentum with spoilers like Clinton and biden

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They had more votes because many who voted democrat in 2020 voted red.

Source?

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That doesn’t mean what you think it does. The fact that Harris received fewer votes from independents is because they stayed home (as evidenced by the lower turnout), not because they moved to Trump en masse.

Your conclusion also makes very little sense when you consider that Harris already conceded so much to Republicans compared to 2020, i.e. on migration, campaigning with Cheney and even proposing to appoint Republicans in the cabinet.

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