The ballot queried greater than 3,000 nationwide and swing state voters between Nov. 6 and Nov. 7.
An exit ballot launched by Democratic polling agency Blueprint outlined the highest three causes voters nationwide gave for not supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in her 2024 bid for U.S. president.
The main difficulty for voters was that inflation is simply too excessive. This was adopted by the Biden–Harris administration permitting in too many unlawful immigrants, and that Harris centered an excessive amount of on cultural subjects like transgender points somewhat than the center class.
Along with inflation, unlawful immigration, and Harris’s deal with transgender points, the following three components named by all voters had been that debt rose too excessive beneath the Biden–Harris administration, that Harris is simply too much like President Joe Biden, and that Harris would let in much more unlawful immigrants. One selection that scored excessive amongst swing state voters particularly was that “Democrats did a foul job working the nation.”
“In the long run, Harris couldn’t outrun her previous or her social gathering—maybe it was a scarcity of time, nevertheless it was actually a vice grip that proved not possible to flee,” the polling report’s authors wrote.
The components of least concern to voters had been that Harris was too pro-Israel, too conservative, or not comparable sufficient to Biden.
The ballot’s findings had been revealed as prime Democrats reel from Tuesday’s election outcomes, level fingers, and assign blame for who’s accountable for Trump’s sweep of the seven battleground states.
“We can not get wrapped across the axle by our base and resistance politics.”
“Perhaps you’re a leftist who feels deep frustration on the many calls to maneuver the Democrats to the middle on the expense of focused and marginalized communities, the expense of struggling folks and regular instances,” Ash-Lee Woodard-Henderson, co-executive director of the Highlander Analysis & Training Heart, informed the digital attendees.
Progressive congresswoman Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.), additionally dismissed calls accountable the social gathering’s left-wing coalitions, and their messaging on cultural points, for Harris’s loss.
“The blame sport, you’ve seen it, it’s already began with lots of low cost pictures at our progressive motion, and it’s straightforward to finger-point even for us, however we’d like to withstand it,” Jayapal stated.
“I think about we share lots of theories about this election and what led us right here, however I believe we really want to have a look at the [exit polling] information.”
Blueprint’s exit polling information appears to validate the considerations of the social gathering’s extra average members comparable to Suozzi.
Roughly 64 % of respondents stated they’d seen Trump marketing campaign advertisements highlighting Harris’s earlier help for taxpayer-funded gender transition surgical procedures for prisoners and unlawful immigrants.
Voters had been roughly break up on the subject of gender-related procedures, comparable to puberty blockers and hormone remedy, for minors beneath the age of 18 who establish as transgender. Forty-seven % stated they “strongly/considerably favor” medical and surgical remedy for minors, whereas 52 % stated they “strongly/considerably oppose” the procedures.