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00:00Why is it that Donald Trump has won so big and Kamala Harris has lost so badly?

00:07There are many factors at play here.

00:10One is that Trump's victory is not something to be seen in isolation.

00:14It's not just the White House that he's taken.

00:16It's the Republicans that have gained control of the US Congress as well.

00:20And the fact that he is winning the popular vote too, is quite significant.

00:25And it shows that there is a larger desire for change, a larger desire to challenge

00:30the status quo among American voters, which is something that we're seeing not just in

00:35the US, but even in Europe, where several far-right parties have in recent years made

00:41significant gains precisely for this very reason.

00:44The state of the economy in the US has been a very important issue for most people.

00:49And even though the economy as a whole is actually doing rather well, and the job numbers

00:53are actually good, it is inflation, high prices that has actually hurt ordinary Americans

00:59the most.

01:00And this is something that has united people across ethnicities to vote for Trump this

01:05time.

01:06He's got more black men to vote for him this time.

01:09More Latinos have come out and voted for him this time.

01:12White women have continued to support him.

01:14So these are major factors that work for Trump, who drove a campaign that was based on a lot

01:20of fear, hatred of immigrants.

01:23And it seemed that American voters were willing to look past that.

01:27They didn't care about his crudity, his misogyny, his racism, and the charges and the criminal

01:32charges that he faces.

01:33The fact that he even questioned the results of the last American election, that does not

01:38really seem to have weighed on the minds of voters who believe that he and his plan for

01:43turning around the American economy is just what they wanted.

01:47As for Kamala Harris, she lost a lot of steam after the initial euphoria over her nomination

01:52in late August, early September.

01:56Part of the reason was that she wasn't able to shake off the tag of the Biden administration.

02:01In fact, she was very much a part of that administration, so it was very difficult for

02:04her to do that balancing act.

02:06But Biden's own ratings have been very, very abysmal.

02:09And Kamala Harris simply wasn't able to shake that off.

02:12She was counting on women voters to back her, particularly on the abortion issue.

02:17That hasn't happened either because she has performed underwhelmingly.

02:21But the larger message here is not just for the Democrats, but perhaps for the liberal

02:25intellectual elite as well.

02:28What is it that the liberal elite are not able to understand about why people like Trump

02:34continue to win elections?

02:36Are they so disconnected from the reality of what working class Americans are going

02:41through that they fail to see the writing on the wall yet again?

02:44I think it would be proper for liberals everywhere, including myself, not to trash this verdict,

02:51but to take a step back and try and understand it, because that's the only way that an alternative

02:57narrative can be framed.

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