Democratic pollster reveals voters’ three biggest problems with Harris

Trump is decisive victory Tuesday, which secured the popular vote and turned at least four battlegrounds red, surprised many in the Democratic Party.

Blueprint has released a report on Friday in an attempt to explain the staggering red wave by outlining the top three reasons voters rejected Harris. Here’s a look at the company’s findings.

The economy

The main reason people gave for choosing Trump over Harris was because they resonated with his populist message on inflation and the economy.

Saying inflation was “too high under the Biden-Harris administration,” the issue ranked highest among Black voters at 27%, while 25% of voters overall said it was the main reason they liked Harris did not support.

Inflation rose to its highest level in decades in the summer of 2022, while high prices continued into the 2024 election cycle.

The vice president struggled to campaign on the issue, as the Trump campaign pointed to her top dog status in the White House to argue that she had failed to address the issue during her 3 1/2 years in the Biden administration tackle inflation.

When Harris tried to portray himself as the driving force for change for voters disillusioned with the economy, Trump struck.

“She just started saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things. Why didn’t she do it?” he asked during his presidential debate against Harris in September.

“They’ve had 3 1/2 years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why didn’t she do it? She should leave right now, go to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do. But you didn’t do it, and you won’t do it, because you believe in things that the American people don’t believe in,” he continued.

“She just started saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things – WHY DIDN’T SHE DO IT? She has been there for 3.5 years!” pic.twitter.com/Ke48mHBTwZ

– Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 12, 2024

The border

Voters also cast their votes for Trump because they agreed with his concerns about immigration policy.

Concerns about high levels of illegal immigration appeared to be the top issue for 23% of all voters, while the same percentage of people said it was their top concern in battleground states like Pennsylvania.

Voters agreed with the statement “Too many immigrants have crossed the border illegally under the Biden-Harris administration.” Their support for Trump’s tough stance on border policy, after relaxed border policies under President Joe Biden allowed record numbers of illegal immigrants to enter. the USA

Trump renewed his pledge to launch a mass deportation effort during the campaign and painted Harris as a fraud when she revealed new hardline immigration positions, such as support for building a border wall.

He focused mainly on her status as “border czarto claim that she had failed to do her job to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country.

“I ask: What about all the people pouring into our country and killing people? That she could flow in. She was the border czar. Remember that. She was the border czar,” Trump said during the debate. “She doesn’t want to be called border czar because she is ashamed of the border.”

‘GO TO DC’: During the ABC News presidential debate, Donald Trump challenged Kamala Harris to get President Biden ‘out of bed’ and take action on border security. pic.twitter.com/1yTDD0QOpu

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 11, 2024

Blueprint weighs in on the top two concerns for voters, reporting: “This suggests Harris was under heavy pressure from the Biden administration, especially over inflation and their record on immigration.”

The company’s data comes after a post-election vote Associated press The survey confirmed that inflation and immigration were top priorities for voters across the spectrum when casting their ballots in the 2024 election.

Transgender policy

Voters also felt that Harris had abandoned the working class in favor of progressive agenda items, expressing dissatisfaction with her focus on transgender policies on issues that mattered to the middle class.

Across all swing states, 25% of voters felt Harris was out of touch and seemed “more focused on cultural issues like transgender issues than on helping the middle class.” In what appeared to be a decisive indictment of the Democratic Party, more swing state voters chose Trump over this issue than any other issue, including the economy and inflation.

In recent years, Harris has expressed support for offering transgender surgery to prisoners, including illegal immigrants. Although she did not put transgender issues at the center of the campaign trail, preferring to dwell on abortion access in an appeal to women voters, the Trump campaign seized the issue and turned it into a stunningly successful advertising campaign.

“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” said a narrator in the ad that flooded the airwaves in the weeks before the election. As he spoke, a headline flashed across the screen, declaring that “Trump’s tax cuts benefited the middle and working class.”

The appeal to middle-class voters who felt abandoned by the Biden-Harris administration swung the race in Trump’s favor by 2.7 percentage points in all states. New York Times report.

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The Blueprint report reflects the observations of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who caucuses with the Democrats, after the election.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party that has failed the working class would conclude that the working class has failed them,” he said in a speech. after to X. “While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.”