The prescription to fix the Democratic Party after a historic loss in the presidential race, likely won’t be found in Washington State.
The Evergreen State is reporting similar results for Vice President Harris and President Biden. That’s an outlier in an election that saw Biden’s eight million vote victory evaporate into a nearly million vote win for former president turned President-elect Donald Trump, according to the vote totals at the time of this article’s posting.
That 13 million vote swing says more about Democrats than it does Trump, according to Victor Menaldo, a political science professor at the University of Washington.
“Their message doesn’t appeal to the majority of Americans and especially the folks that count in the battleground states,” Menaldo said.
Menaldo looks to issues like the cumulative inflation that has bogged down Americans’ budgets since the pandemic. As price increases moderated closer to the election, Menaldo acknowledges there were few paths for Democrats to reshape the narrative.