Destined for Defeat: Behind the Democratic Disaster of 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : For the first time in 20 years the party's candidate lost the popular vote in a presidential contest; the shift among a wide range of demographic groups and geographies toward the Republicans betokened a seismic change in American voter behavior; and the fact that a candidate as flawed as Trump could pull off one of the great political comebacks in history -- all suggest something profound about the condition of a Democratic Party that had enjoyed electoral success for so long.
33% : Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes William Morrow, 352 pp., $32
18% : The biggest revelatory details though come in the reporting of the feuding between the main protagonists in the Democratic Party over the summer as Biden was pressured to drop out after his disastrous late June debate with Trump, as Harris maneuvered herself into the nomination, and as some of the party's luminaries tried to stop her.
11% : Kamala Harris's defeat in 2024, while not the landslide that Donald Trump likes to claim, was nevertheless a historic reversal for the Democratic Party.

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