The backlash occurred down ballot in November 2020 to the Floyd riots and Defund the Police slogan. It was unfathomable to think a candidate could win the presidency by 7 plus million votes and yet, have his party lose 13 house seats, a governorship and 2 state legislatures. I’d say folks wanted Trump gone, but didn’t trust the Democrats to have full control and they voted that way.
2020 was only the second time in our entire history that a candidate won the popular vote via the presidency and lost house seats. The only other time was in 1884 when Grover Cleveland won the popular vote by a mere 58,000 and his party lost 8 house seats. 58,000 is a long way from 7 million plus.
The full results of the 2020 election, both the presidency and down ballot leads me to believe that election was the total rejection of Trump. But it wasn’t a rejection or endorsement of either major party’s agenda, ideology or philosophy. The Democrats completely misread the 2020 election, that’s why they’re in trouble today. Perhaps the overturning of ROE can mitigate some of that trouble, maybe not. We’ll see.
