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The 2024 election buried Barack Obamaâs coalition | Semafor

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David Gergen : Democrats failed to win back Obama-Trump voters and stop losses with non-white voters.

Gergen says a new Democratic coalition that was born with Barack Obama's 2008 victory, nearly died with Trump ’s 2016 upset, and got buried on Tuesday night .

Democrats had rebuilt their traditional operations after the 2020 COVID election upended in-person canvassing, Gergen writes.

Democrats tumbled into recriminations even after winning the 2020 election.

Trump ditched Romneyâs austerity policies, soft-pedaled his own very similar tax policies, and ran on closing the border to new arrivals to protect the country for the people already living here. And it broke the Democratsâ coalition..

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79

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semi-formal

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English

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