by Frank Holmes, reporter
Vice President Kamala Harris and her supporters like Jimmy Kimmel are literally crying over the 2024 election results.
President-elect Donald Trump won an Electoral College blowout and trashed Harris in the popular vote, to boot.
But as dark as things look for Harris and her voters, if they look closely they will not see a “billion bright shining stars,” as Harris said Wednesday.
They will see the dark, despairing pit of complete national defeat. If anything, the 2024 election results were actually worse than Harris wants to believe.
In 2024, voters didn’t just ditch Harris; they turned the page on almost every policy she ever supported.
On Tuesday, voters even blew a hole in the biggest rampart in the Democrats’ blue wall: California.
The Horn has told you about soft-on-crime prosecutors refusing to arrest criminals, or turning them back out onto the street with no bail—and the devastation that has inflicted on everyday Californians.
This year, the citizens got fed up and started fighting back—recalling Soros-backed D.A. George Gascon and putting a measure on the state ballot to make sure no prosecutor could ever again look the other way during a statewide crime spree.
“People convicted of certain drug or theft crimes could receive increased punishment, such as longer prison sentences. In certain cases, people who possess illegal drugs would be required to complete treatment or serve up to three years in prison,” explained the California State Secretary of State’s website.
Kamala Harris bragged about being state attorney general, calling herself a “tough prosecutor”…but that was in the bad old days her state voters wanted to end.
When a reporter asked Kamala Harris how she voted on the measure — like so many other issues — the vice president refused to say.
“So, I have my ballot. It’s on its way to California, and I’m going to trust the system that it will arrive there,” she said, stalling.
Finally, she got around to giving a formal non-answer. “I am not going to talk about the vote on that. Because, honestly, it’s the Sunday before the election, and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it,” she said.
VP Harris refuses to say if she voted for a California proposition allowing for tougher penalties on repeat drug and theft offenders.@JimGeraghty says that's a strange answer from a woman who keeps telling us how tough she is on crime.
Full Podcast: https://t.co/iA9mWCE4vK pic.twitter.com/wFBIV1lIQK
— Greg Corombos (@Dateline_DC) November 4, 2024
Kamala Harris did not want to endorse the measure, but the Golden State overwhelmingly did.
Seven out of 10 California voters voted in favor of the tough-on-crime measure. All told, 70.6 percent of Californians voted for Proposition 36.
The support proved so comprehensive that the measure appears to have carried the day in all 70 counties, from the Redwood forest to the Pacific Coast waters.
Prop 36 in California which increases penalties for repeated theft offenses and certain drug crimes – and which Kamala Harris declined to give position on last days of the campaign is currently leading in *every single* country in California and has 70% support. pic.twitter.com/IypvMIRGWo
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 7, 2024
That’s not the only state ballot measure that broke Democrats’ hearts.
The swing state of Arizona adopted Proposition 313, to give a sentence of life in prison to anyone convicted in the sex trafficking of a child.
They also adopted Proposition 314, allowing officers to arrest and charge illegal aliens for crashing the border.
Kamala Harris bet heavily on abortion to win the suburban female voter, as well as young people. But exit polls revealed that voters rated abortion as the third most important issue to them…and many of those voters were pro-life
Voters in three states—Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota—voted down amendments that would have added abortion to their state constitutions. In fact, voters in Nebraska voted against to institute a different amendment ending abortions after 15 weeks.
Voters in eight states adopted constitutional amendments saying that only American citizens will be legally eligible to vote in American elections from this point forward.
Votes in nine states voted against a rank-choice voting scheme that would let candidates who can’t win a majority of voters get elected to office—a measure that benefits liberals.
But Democrats’ real problem isn’t just that their policies are unpopular—it’s that they have completely lost the voters who once made up their base of their party and are fast hurtling into minority party status, according to one of the most popular personalities on a left-wing news network.
“The numbers Democrats need to be looking at are: Only 32 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats. I can’t remember a number that low in my lifetime. It really is a party disconnected from large swaths of working class, middle-class Americans,” said Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning.
But he wasn’t even done.
"The numbers Democrats need to be looking at are: Only 32 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats. I can't remember a number that low in my lifetime. It really is a party disconnected from large swaths of working class, middle-class Americans." @joenbc pic.twitter.com/fdAMxfu0Nv
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) November 7, 2024
Democrats “have lost working-class America. The question is, how long until they understand this isn’t just about tax cuts, this isn’t just about economics, this is about cultural markers that matter greatly in these people’s lives?” he asked.
.@JoeNBC: "[Democrats] have lost working-class America. The question is, how long until they understand this isn’t just about tax cuts, this isn’t just about economics, this is about cultural markers that matter greatly in these people’s lives?" https://t.co/M5qDELdmqa pic.twitter.com/EKFavptM0g
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) November 7, 2024
It should be easy for Democrats to see.
All they have to do is look at the 2024 election results—or they will be doomed to repeat them.