Democrat Stacey Abrams, famend voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, argued that the U.S. was practically “evenly divided” when President-elect Trump received the 2024 presidential contest over Vice President Harris.
“Donald Trump won the election but it wasn’t a landslide,” Abrams, who misplaced two election bids for governor within the Peach State, mentioned in an interview Monday with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “It was an evenly divided nation, he got more people, but this was not the seismic shift where 57, 58 percent of America said no.”
“It was less than 50 percent of the electorate who said this is what we want,” she added.
The nonpartisan Prepare dinner Political Report exhibits that Trump received 49.8 % of the favored vote in comparison with Harris’s 48.33 %.
Trump received each the Electoral Faculty and the standard vote this previous election cycle, although PBS reported that his margins over his Harris “were small by historical standards.” His win, as reported by the outlet, was the fourth smallest victory since 1960.
In response to PBS, Trump beat Harris by 1.62 % for votes counted by Nov. 20, which is smaller than any victory since 2000 — when then-GOP candidate George W. Bush beat former Vice President Al Gore, by simply over half a %.
Nonetheless, Trump did safe wins in all seven battleground states, flipping Georgia again into his column, holding North Carolina and shattering the “blue wall.” PBS reported that his victories within the crucial swing states had been secured by “particularly wide margins.”
In the course of the MSNBC interview, Abrams additionally mentioned “decency” in politics, arguing that whereas it’s a tough option to make, it will possibly have the impact of “boosting confidence.”
“Our responsibility is for decency to show those who stayed home, those who stayed silent that there is a place for decency and a place for them,” she informed Hayes. “That’s the work that has to be done.”
However, Abrams added, “it cannot be by itself the only offering.”
She additionally warned that when decency and ignominy — or disgrace and shame — are in battle, the latter will at all times have the leg up.
“Ignominy is willing to do things that decency won’t,” Abrams mentioned. “But that doesn’t mean you abandon decency, I think it means you find other allies.”
