The former vice president has singlehandedly ruined her own career. And it’s only getting worse.
Now Kamala Harris made a humiliating claim that is hard to watch.
Debunking the “No Mandate” Narrative
Kamala Harris has repeatedly insisted that Donald Trump’s 2024 victory lacks a true mandate, framing it as a narrow squeaker rather than a resounding endorsement. This claim crumbles under scrutiny.
Trump secured 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226, a comfortable margin that included sweeps in all seven battleground states. In the popular vote, he garnered approximately 51.7% to her 48.3%, translating to a victory margin of over 2 million votes.
Such a result—far from the razor-thin edges of past nail-biters—signals clear voter approval for his agenda, especially when paired with Republican gains in Congress.
Dismissing this as mandate-free ignores the electoral math and the broad geographic buy-in.
The Myth of the “Closest” Election
Harris’s tour de force line—”it was the tightest, closest presidential election in the 21st century”—doesn’t hold water when stacked against history.
By popular vote margin, 2024’s roughly 1.5-2% gap pales in comparison to 2000’s nail-biting 0.51% edge (where Al Gore actually won the national tally but lost the Electoral College).
Other 21st-century races, like 2016’s 2.1% spread, were similarly snug, but none match the drama of Bush v. Gore.
Trump’s blowout in key states and overall vote share make 2024 feel more like a solid win than a squeaker, rendering Harris’s “Period. Period” hyperbole more rhetoric than reality.
Economic Reality Check: Promises in Progress, Not Betrayal
Harris charges that Trump “lied” to voters by failing to slash prices, pointing to rises in groceries, unemployment, and inflation as proof of deception.
While it’s true that food-at-home prices have ticked up about 2.4% year-to-date through 2025, this modest increase aligns with long-term trends and comes amid broader cooling in the inflation pipeline—down to 2.9% year-over-year in August, a far cry from the Biden-era peaks.
Unemployment edged to 4.3% in August from 4.2% prior, a minor fluctuation in a resilient job market, not the catastrophe she implies.
With Trump in office less than a year, judging his pledges as outright failures overlooks the time needed for policy impacts like tariffs or deregulation to ripple through. Voters backed him knowing change wouldn’t be overnight; her rush to “lied” verdict feels like premature sour grapes.
