The Democratic Party Needs to Demand a Recount

[Metaphorical]

46. Something to keep in mind

If you take a look at ALL of the races outside the presidency, what you see is that almost NOTHING changed.

The Democrats gained seats in the House, just not enough to retake it. (We may be looking at 218-217).
The Democrats lost a couple of seats in the Senate that we were expecting to lose, when we were defending 28 seats and the Republicans were defending 10 (Note this flips in 2026).
No gubernatorial races changed parties (we might actually pick up one that's still being counted).
There was no significant change in the number of state assembly to any party, house or senate, ANYWHERE in the US.

In other words, for such a major change at the top, this race was about as uneventful as it could be.

I think we need to remember this. There was no mandate here for Trump. The Red States voted Red, the Blue States voted blue, the Purple States just EKED into Red Territory, but not by much. Trump actually picked up almost exactly the same number of votes that he did in 2020. Democrats mysteriously did not vote. Why? Harris was popular, well liked, a lot of people were engaged. Nobody likes Trump. Even people who voted for him don't like him.

I'm not going to get into conspiracy theory territory. I don't have an answer that makes any sense, and while there's a lot of armchair quarterback analysis going on right now, the reality is that those people who were fired up just never voted. Huh?