Making Sense of Trump's Win
After a night of resounding losses and a nationwide lurch to the right, Jon, Lovett, Tommy, and Dan begin to sift through the pieces—what we know, and we don't, about the race Democrats ran, what voters are looking for, and how to endure the turmoil of a second Trump term.
- Duration
- 54m
- Broadcast on
- 06 Nov 2024
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm John Favreau. - I'm John Lovett, I'm Dan Fiffer. - Tommy Victor. - So guys, tough day. - Promotional support animal on my lap right here. Leo's here. Let's get to it, Donald Trump won. He won all seven swing states. He's projected to win the popular vote by about one and a half points when all the counting is finally done. Republicans will take control of the Senate. Maybe with 52 seats when all is said and done. Well, it's a slotkin, Tammy Baldwin and Ruben Guego. Seems like they're gonna hang on in Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. Unclear if Jackie Rosen and Nevada will be able to hang on. The house looks extremely close and will not be decided for a few weeks until they count all the votes here in California, which often takes a few weeks. Trump's win was quite broad. He improved on his 2020 performance in almost every county among every demographic. So a majority of the country that includes all ages, races, genders, religions and political beliefs chose four more years of Donald Trump, either because they like him or they like his agenda, or they don't see him and his agenda as enough of a risk, or they voted for him based on battery and complete information. Those are the options. Or they hated Democrats. Or they hated, yeah. And it's probably a different mix for each voter, but we just don't know yet. One thing we do know is that since the pandemic and the record inflation had caused, incumbent leaders all over the world have been losing, incumbents of all political persuasions on nearly every continent. And I just say that is a factual background for context in the political environment we're in right now. With all that said, what are your thoughts on what went wrong in this election? Who wants to start? Dan?
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After a night of resounding losses and a nationwide lurch to the right, Jon, Lovett, Tommy, and Dan begin to sift through the pieces—what we know, and we don't, about the race Democrats ran, what voters are looking for, and how to endure the turmoil of a second Trump term.