What's your opinion as to the number one issue that caused Trump/GOP to win

[Demovictory9]

Not what voters told exit survey but what was truly in their sneaky hearts? From what you are hearing , reading postb election.

If you had to pick only one

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	Economy/inflation
	70 (40%)
	Abortion
	0 (0%)
	Immigration
	9 (5%)
	Personality/Trump's brashness/ dislike for Harris
	4 (2%)
	Environment/climate
	0 (0%)
	Crime
	0 (0%)
	Democracy/fear this is last election if their side doesn't win
	0 (0%)
	Trans/gender issues
	1 (1%)
	Race (separate from immigration)
	4 (2%)
	Sexism/misogyny
	88 (50%)
	17 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[gab13by13]

1. None of the above

[Demovictory9]

2. Then what?

[lame54]

12. The war on reality

[hlthe2b]

15. Yeah... In a word: LIES (albeit racism/misogyny were entertwined)

[GreenWave]

18. Lies would have been my choice here too.!

[Zambero]

52. Nonstop social media disinformation

The #1 reason, over and above all the others. The RW media machine is a monster of lies and distortion.

[PhilosopherKing]

57. Stupid American people.

Simple really.

[Demanchor]

60. Apathy and exhaustion

[northoftheborder]

65. All of the above - expanded

Major causes: Ignorance, apathy, laziness, plus racism and misogyny, plus religious cultism. America is not basically what I’ve thought it was my whole life. This election is like a punch to the gut rearranging my sense of what Is the essence of the USA. Those negative elements have always been here, but they have metastasized and sprung forth as a major force to destroy everything. And I don’t see how it’s going to change back. The orange villain is just the facilitator.

[ibegurpard]

3. Saturation of right-wing propaganda

NT

[Demovictory9]

4. Regarding what issue? All equally or one in particular

[live love laugh]

38. You don't watch the newz or read the incessant threads about media distortions?

[Demovictory9]

43. I do..yes

[live love laugh]

48. You expect someone to pick through or rank the flood of

disinformation and propaganda?

[awesomerwb1]

11. I agree

If you hear the same lies over and over and over x 1000 they can get you to believe anything.

Right wing media dominates. Fox 'news", Newsmax, OANN, EWTN (yes, the catholic channel), Twitter, 4-8chan, and a billion AM/FM radio stations.

[Dan]

5. Stupidity

They wanted to hurt the “others” and didn’t realize that we are all in the same pot.

[DeepWinter]

6. It would be interesting

to see a poll with those exact same choices, but "what was the number one issue that DID NOT cause Trump/GOP to win.

I suspect it's the same thing for half of DU.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. There isn't a single issue that caused Trump to win

For some it was surely misogyny or racism, for others, they bought into the propaganda/media failure that the economy sucked. Not sure what purpose it serves to seek to oversimplify the reasons Harris lost.

[The Wizard]

8. self loathing

[Macrophylla]

9. Stupidity

Is number one
It's number 2
It's number 3.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. white supremacy

[Demovictory9]

13. Agreed. I am seeing so many people celebrating the coming deportations

[Crunchy Frog]

14. The RW and shadowy billionaires have been working to get to this point for decades.

With well funded think tanks, cultivating religious wackos, brainwashing people with propaganda radio and TV. This is about the interests of the extremely wealthy, and their use any issue they can find to whip up ordinary rubes to vote against their own interests.

The issue is wealth and power for the wealthiest and most powerful.

[Nigrum Cattus]

16. The real reason is'nt on there

The reason he "won" is religious fanaticism. The right wing religious extremists
think the bible myths somehow predict and require his being in the white house.
The unraveling of Roe is what codified this.

[republianmushroom]

17. Democrats over confidence, shades of 2016.

[DeepWinter]

23. yep

And we heard it over and over and over again, 2024 is not 2016. That won't happen again. It's totally different. Apples and oranges. Blue wave.

We love to repeat history because we refuse to admit to patterns.

[Native]

19. you need to include the media

[mvd]

21. That's my #1 reason

The way they are acting now is just as awful.

[Ping Tung]

20. Fear of immigrants, women, non-whites, gun registration, homosexuals, people who are educated,

and many more.

"Home of the brave...." my ass.

[oldmanlynn]

26. Which is the Republicans propaganda machine

[Ping Tung]

33. Exactly. They bamboozled the citizenry into believing that a "Strong Leader" would save them.

It worked in 20s Italy, 30s Germany, 70's Chile, and many more. Erect Bogeymen and the people will beg for a REAL Man to wield his sword to chase them away.

[BlueTsunami2018]

22. The propaganda machine.

That’s what warped all the issues above into something they aren’t. And there’s no way to fight it. You can’t stop people from selecting the news they want to hear and that shit is ubiquitous.

[Maeve]

24. Another reason that may be overlooked

Brexit style voting. A lot of people thought they were "safe" doing a protest vote for Brexit because they thought they would lose, but wanted to make it close. They f*ed up.
Likewise, people voted for tsf thinking Kamala would win, but wanted to make it close. They are about to enter the FO stage.

[Demovictory9]

34. Interesting point

[oldmanlynn]

25. You don't have misinformation or disinformation in your pool

That just tells me again that Democrats us seem to not be recognizing the massive amount of propaganda that Republicans, the right wing push, and all of these people who voted for Trump all see the world differently because of that misinformation. We have to correct that problem we could give out million dollars to everybody in United States, but if the Republicans are pushing propaganda that that million dollars will kill them then they won’t take it. Misinformation disinformation that is the number one reason why we lost this election.

[Demovictory9]

35. I didnt think of that.

[flvegan]

27. Stupidity. n/t

[leftstreet]

28. Maybe need a Democratic Voter Turnout option n/t

[OrlandoDem2]

29. Cost of housing, mortgage rates, inflation PLUS all the others.

[LW1977]

30. Stupidity

[TheKentuckian]

31. The stupidity, low character, and narcissism of too many Americans.

[meadowlander]

67. Amen brother. In a healthy electorate, he never would have been on the ticket in the first place.

To your list, I would only add greed and, in some cases, repressed sadism.

[TheKentuckian]

68. Super fair!

[3catwoman3]

32. Too many American voters are ignorant, arrogant...

...assholes.

[Demovictory9]

36. Lol..yeah there is that

[ironman99]

37. What's your opinion as to the number one issue that caused Trump/GOP to win

The F***in media.

They gave tRUMP unpaided free advertising.

Refused to acknowledge Biden/Harris accomplishments.

Ignored the birder flu that wiped out entire flocks of chickens that raised the price of eggs and chicken.

Waited until 6 weeks before the election to talk about how well the economy was doing under Biden/Harris.

[drray23]

39. None of these topics mattered by themselve

What drove this loss is targeted disinformation that the right wing is very good at. They flooded the social media of young and disaffected folks with a barrage of lies.
We instead relied on facts and policies. That does not work. Until we dismantle the rw propaganda machine or build one of our own to counter it we will never win the presidential elections again and likely stay in the minority in congress.

[Demovictory9]

41. Agreed. RW are experts at spreading propaganda. We got 2 years to counter

[usaf-vet]

40. Without an audit, we will never know what effect voter suppression in all its forms had on the tallies, and then....

.... of course, intervention by any and all means possible direct by the GOP or at least ignored by the GOP as long as they win.

The standard state of politics since 2000.

If the GOP wins, it will be a "perfect" election. The Democrats will grumble a little and then move ahead without looking back. It seems that has been our designated role in politics since 2000.

If the Democrats win, the GOP first relies on all of the pre-election warnings that the rumors and lies were true. The election IS GOING to be stolen, we told you, and the MSM repeats the rumors and lies. When that doesn't go their way, they turn to the courts. And even when they lose 60 times in the courts. They continue the lies and have persuaded enough cult followers to believe them, so the cycle continues until the next election.

Then, who wins dictates the start of the next cycle.

Without an audit, we will never know what effect voter suppression in all its forms had on the tallies, and then, of course...

[ForgedCrank]

42. The answer

was there all along if we listen to people.
It was always the economy, followed closely by immigration.

[City Lights]

44. 'Misinformation' would have been my choice. nt

[Solly Mack]

45. Ignorance. Which is a huge umbrella.

[Polybius]

46. Need one more option

We campaigned with the Cheneys.

[Demovictory9]

47. Option: bad campaign choices by Dems

[lees1975]

49. The four-year, 24 hour a day, 7 day a week campaign for Trump waged by the mainstream media.

No one wants to talk about the fact that he's received more news coverage than anyone ever has in American history.

[live love laugh]

50. 💯💯💯💯💯💯♾️

[Demovictory9]

62. Its incredible how much attention he gets

[Mariana]

51. You left out religion.

He got most of the Christians' votes. 63% of Protestants voted for Trump, and 58% of Catholics.

[ecstatic]

53. Y'all are forgetting about the Israel-Palestine conflict

13% of 2020 Swing State Biden Voters Won't Be in 2024 Because of Gaza: Polls
The figure comes as part of a new set of polls that show former President Donald Trump narrowly leading Biden in 5 out of 6 crucial battleground states.
Olivia Rosane
May 13, 2024

Approximately 13% of poll respondents in six swing states who voted for U.S. President Joe Biden in 2020 but would not vote for him again said that his foreign policy or Israel's war on Gaza were the most important issues determining their vote.

The figure comes as part of a new set of polls released Monday from The New York Times, Siena College, and The Philadelphia Inquirer that show former President Donald Trump narrowly leading Biden in 5 out of 6 crucial battleground states.

"We have warned that this would happen for months, and the Democratic Party didn't give a damn," author and organizer Daniel Denvir wrote on social media in response to the news.

Read: https://www.commondreams.org/news/13-ex-biden-voters-gaza

bibi intentionally ramped up the slaughter as our election neared. I referred to it as election interference. He literally was trying to trigger a world war. As sickened as I was by the situation, I was hoping that voters would be willing to secure the country from trump, protect our rights and then ramp up the pressure on the Biden administration, but I guess short sighted individuals chose a different route that will help literally nobody.

Even if you factor for the usual sexism, racism, etc, if those 10 million or so voters had taken part in the election, we'd be victorious right now. In my opinion.

[Blue_Tires]

54. OTHER: An utter tsunami of disinformation that we couldn't overcome...

Pretty much every issue in your poll can be directly linked to this...

What really pisses me off is there were tons of news stories this year and last year about Moscow's plans to flood social media with trolls and bots to sway the election and people still fell for it.

[rzemanfl]

55. Not convinced of the "win."

[uponit7771]

56. Sexism and racism kept people from seeing VD Chance and the Felon could **NOT** fix number one with their dumb ass ...

... non existent policies.

Benedict Donald is ***NOT*** going to improve real wages, all of his policies are going to make it worse

[Theproletariat]

58. I'll go with

Disgust with the establishment on both sides. They are beholden to the same entities at the end of the day. People are tired of the bread and circus bullshit from the establishment and wanted something else again.

[apcalc]

59. Media

Effed us over again… not reporting Trump’s dementia, not reporting kamala’s economic and working class plans, allowing corporations to eff us over with inflated prices

[gopiscrap]

61. cheating

[Sugarcoated]

63. I didn't see propaganda on that list

Specifically, Russian propaganda

[Demovictory9]

66. In hindsight..i would write different poll options

[nuxvomica]

64. Biden stepping down

Presidential elections are referendums on the incumbent's performance. The people who pushed for Biden to step down should have been out there hyping his achievements, not criticizing his debate performance. It signaled a lack of confidence from which the campaign never recovered.

[JanMichael]

69. Two things - immigration and transgender ads

That's all they had on TV here in North Carolina. Basically brown people are criminals and transgender women are going to get you.

[Demovictory9]

71. Yep

[Meowmee]

70. So many

Economy
Immigration
Misogyny/ racism big one imo
Effect of 10/7- some Jewish voters lost
Michagan Arab voters nv, psycho vote, green vote etc.
cheating will never know exactly what happened and if it had an effect on the actual outcome because no one’s really investigating it.

I read on X that someone got over 100,000 Amish voters registered to vote in Pennsylvania, who all voted for a psycho. I’m not sure if it’s true or not.

Also Ukraine war of course, oil heating prices are still twice what they were here, and price gouging starting in pandemic.

[MayReasonRule]

72. Delusional Hatred & Machiavellian Malevolence Are THE Primary Reasons...

Never underestimate the power of stupid and evil...

The Machiavellian have been leading the Darwin Award Winners down the Proverbial Primrose Path ever since humanity's existence.

This is it on the most powerful steroids imaginable multiplied by being the only 'Super Power' on the planet in the midst of Russia, China, and North Korea aligning...

Worst movie ever!!