Ya know what bugs me about the claim that it was all about the economy?

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14. I don't think it was ALL about the economy, but I do think it was PARTLY about the economy

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I think the economy flipped some people from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024. Maybe not a majority of people, but some people voted on the economy. I don’t think we can deny that.

Some disengaged voters may have voted based on the economy.

Some people blamed Biden and Harris for inflation. In truth, nothing would have prevented the inflation. If Trump had won reelection in 2020, we would have still had inflation. Didn’t matter whether a country was ran by right wing politicians or left wing politicians, they experienced inflation all the same. Therefore, it was unfair to blame Joe Biden for inflation he couldn’t do anything to prevent but people tend not to think at a macroeconomic level or don’t know how to so they just blame whoever is in charge.

I think the question is whether that slice of people that did vote based on the economy was enough to tilt the election toward Trump?

There is a slice of people that truly believe a woman should not be president. There are tons of interviews done by political pundits since the 2016 election in which people will clearly indicate they don’t believe a woman should be president. They don’t know view the presidency as a woman’s job so they will vote for a man who is crook over a woman. Sadly, woman are also included in this group of people. Was that slice people enough to tilt the election toward Trump?

Obviously, we have racist people in this country who will not vote for a non-white person. We were never getting those people anyway. Those people were likely voting Republican to begin with.

Of these, which group was enough to tilt the scales in Trump’s favor? I don’t know but to me, it makes sense that people would blame Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for inflation. It makes sense to me that the slice of people that swung to Trump over the economy COULD HAVE been the group that cost us the election. However, I do agree that the economy isn’t the only reason people had for not voting for Kamala Harris.

When I vote, I think about my grandmother who was born in the Jim Crow south and the world they fought to build. Her generation fought for the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and all the necessary changes to pass down to people like me. Republicans are destroying the fruits of my grandmother’s labor, a legacy that I fight to preserve.