The More Democrats Blame White Women, the More They’ll Vote Red

The issues that moved a demographic away from Vice President Harris’s campaign.

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President Trump thanks the "North Carolina Girls," a group of women who attend many of his rallies, at the end of a rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 2, 2024 at Greensboro, North Carolina. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

President Trump’s decisive victory Tuesday is forcing Democrats to explain their loss — and they’re turning to a familiar scapegoat: white women.

“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” Joy Reid said on MSNBC. “If people vote more party line or more on race than on gender and protecting their gender, there’s really not that much more you can do.”

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