Garrett Graff: “Donald Trump’s victory is so striking, so broad, and so deep—touching every corner of the country, his support improving across virtually every demographic—that it should remove any second-guessing from Democrats about their candidate, Harris’s strategy, or even the core politics of the Biden administration.
”“Picking Josh Shapiro as veep wouldn’t have mattered; handling Gaza differently wouldn’t have made a difference; giving a few more interviews to mainstream news outlets wouldn’t have changed a thing. The economy was, by any objective measurement, as strong and robust as it could be, the Democrats outraised and outorganized the GOP, and none of that mattered a lick.”
“An angry America made a conscious, resounding, national choice for a different path on Tuesday. It was a total rejection not just of Democrats but of this century’s governing establishment—this campaign, of course, allied not just Harris, Biden, Obama, and the Clintons but also the Cheneys and the Bushes.”