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That is a breakthrough for the Republicans at the presidential level,
New Mexico-based political columnist Joe Monahan told the Associated Press as ballots were being tallied There's a frustration by voters in New Jersey on economic stuff, on crime issues, and I also think there's an underbelly in the stuff Trump tapped into culturally,
Republican strategist Chris Russell told Politico The Democratic Party talks about helping the poor, but if you talk about Hudson County, it's segregated, and the working class and the liberal enclaves are basically the people who are supporting Wall Street in the places they can't afford the rent. There's no affordable housing,
People were left to their own devices, with all this misinformation Trump was putting out there that the economy was better under him,
At the end of the day, if you’re not able to put food on the table or make a living, you’re going to vote in your self-interest,
Here it’s clear that what we knew as true in politics, a lot of the normal rules we had, those are dead and gone,
said Mike Noble, an independent pollster who has been studying the electorate in Nevada, Arizona and Utah There’s a disillusionment and distrust among Hispanics with the Democrats,
Wadi Gaitan, a communications director for Libre, said in the weeks prior to election day The Democrats just aren’t who they used to be
affirmed Kidany Perez, 32, an asphalt worker and longtime Democrat who voted for Trump this year They leaned into the right on immigration, into the promise of militarising the border,
said Leo Murritata, director of the progressive group Make the Road Action Nevada, which focuses on turning out Black and brown voters I think that [Democrats] did turn out who they thought were their voters,
said Jon Ralston, Nevada’s preeminent political oracle and cofounder of the Nevada Independent, during a post-election panel discussion I feel so happy right now, I feel fantastic,
said Yolanda Wright, 47, beaming as state after state lit up red on the big screen at the Republican watch party in Las Vegas I’ve been a Democrat my whole life,
After four years under Kamala Harris, Keystone State voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke,
Trump's Pennsylvania campaign spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone earlier today where she congratulated him on his historic victory,
Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung confirmed I think you look at the places where she [Harris] underperformed Biden's vote, you look at the breakdown with different ethnic groups, racial groups across the country, it's hard to point to one place where she really—it would almost be sort of easier to look at the result and say, OK, well it was clearly her underperformance in Dearborn, it was clearly Gaza that didn't bring Michigan home for her,
I think certainly there is an anti-incumbent sentiment across the country but also globally,
Kate Bedingfield said on CNN She told him that she would work with President Biden to ensure a peaceful transition of power, unlike what we saw in 2020,
O'Malley Dillon said in an email to campaign staff Certainly, no question, VP [Kamala] Harris was facing those headwinds,
Unlike Nate Silver, who will try to squirm out of why he didn’t see the election coming, I admit that I was wrong,
I’ve been the outlier queen so many times,
Selzer, whose polling correctly foretold Barack Obama’s triumph in the Iowa caucuses in 2008, told the New York Times
