DECRYPTAGE – To be elected, Donald Trump benefited from a surge in the Latino, young, black male and female vote. But he also capitalized on several themes that turned voters away from his competitor Kamala Harris.
Pollsters predicted an ultra-tight election: they weren’t wrong. For if Donald Trump is set to win the seven key states – Arizona has not yet been counted, but he is well ahead there – his victory came down to a few tens of thousands of votes, in the states of “blue wall in the Midwest: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The gaps are very small, around 250,000 votes, with only 30,000 in Wisconsin. A trifle on the scale of the country, where over 140 million ballots were counted. Once the bitterness of defeat has passed, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will have to analyze the reasons for this failure.
In a study published on Friday November 8, the Blueprint Instituteclose to the Democratic camp, has identified the main factors that led voters not to choose Harris. The 3,262 voters questioned, including 1,883 from key states, ranked three…
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