2024 election Archives

2024 Was Not a Repudiation of Democratic Party

November 5, 2025 Buck Banks

“Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Biden-Harris Administration, and, by extension, Vice President Kamala Harris, not the top-to-bottom repudiation of the Democratic Party that many have made it out to be.”

It’s been six months and still the Dems don’t understand
What happened in the election and how the disaster began.
Their ideas so far have been anemic,
But now they’re going psychologic
With SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”

Democrats Gradually Recovering from Post-Election ‘News Fatigue’

February 19, 2025 Buck Banks

83%

A new Puck/Echelon Insight poll finds that “news fatigue” is dissipating on the left with 83% of Democrats either “very” or “somewhat closely” following political news right now.

Biden in the Bardo

December 10, 2024 Buck Banks

Being Joe Biden these days really sucks.
He’s checked out while the transition’s in flux.
Trump is acting like a president;
Joe acts like a White House resident,
And he has indeed become the lamest of lame ducks.

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

December 9, 2024 Buck Banks

$100,000

“Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers,” NBC News reports. “The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to ‘JW Howard Attorneys’ on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. Financial data for Trump’s campaign, which was converted to a leadership PAC, appears in FEC filings under the new Never Surrender name.”

Carville Assesses the State of the Democratic Party

December 7, 2024 Buck Banks

“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”

— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.

Less than 2% Is NOT a Mandate

December 1, 2024 Buck Banks

1.55%

In his victory speech on Nov. 6, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Americans had given him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” the Los Angeles Times reports. However: “The latest tally from the Cook Political Report shows Trump winning 49.83% of the popular vote, with a margin of 1.55% over Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Trump Beat Harris with Low-Info Voters by Double Digits

November 19, 2024 Buck Banks

14 points

NBC News: “According to the final NBC News poll of the 2024 race, 76% of registered voters said they follow public affairs and politics closely. The poll showed Harris winning among that group by 5 points over Donald Trump, 52% to 47%. … But among the remaining quarter of voters who said they don’t follow politics closely, Trump was ahead by a much greater margin — 14 points, 54% to 40%.”

Trump Received Less than 50% of Popular Vote

November 17, 2024November 19, 2024 Buck Banks

49.99% to 48.22%

With 152.7 million votes now counted in the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 49.99% to 48.22%, according to the Cook Political Report.

Leftist Deniers Create ‘BlueAnon’

November 15, 2024 Buck Banks

The right went nuts after Joe Biden won,
Sprouting 8chan, InfoWars and QAnon.
Now, after Trump’s win,
Lefty election deniers want in —
Sprouting their left-wing version called “BlueAnon.”

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2024 Was Not a Repudiation of Democratic Party

— Charlie Cook

Hey, Young Dudes!

Democrats Gradually Recovering from Post-Election ‘News Fatigue’

83%

A new Puck/Echelon Insight poll finds that “news fatigue” is dissipating on the left with 83% of Democrats either “very” or “somewhat closely” following political news right now.

Biden in the Bardo

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

$100,000

Carville Assesses the State of the Democratic Party

“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”

— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.

Less than 2% Is NOT a Mandate

1.55%

Trump Beat Harris with Low-Info Voters by Double Digits

14 points

Trump Received Less than 50% of Popular Vote

49.99% to 48.22%

With 152.7 million votes now counted in the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 49.99% to 48.22%, according to the Cook Political Report.

Leftist Deniers Create ‘BlueAnon’

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don’t talk about it.”

— JD Vance, on Twitter in 2021.

— Charlie Cook

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

Numerati

1.1 million

$279 billion

18

“President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports. “We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”

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