Former MD Governor Says Both Parties ‘Will Be Talking About Realignment for Years’

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The 2024 elections to smithereens the Democratic coalition of the past two decades, when Donald Trump made big gains in virtually every major demographic group.

Democrats made only slight gains among people over 65 and white, college-educated women, according to the Financial Times survey.

Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich highlighted this coalition realignment, and what the realignment will mean for both parties in the coming years, as part of his post-election analysis for The National News Desk Wednesday morning.

“You really see the realignment in the Midwest,” he noted.

Ehrlich also said that the realignment is not limited to race, but that there is a strong realignment of the working class, which is also reflected in the presence of organized labor at some of Trump’s rallies in the so-called blue wall battleground states.

“What really struck me was the presence of organized labor… one element of these mini realignments is organized labor.”

He further argued that some of the recasting stemmed from the rhetoric Democrats used in the fight against the Trump campaign – such as “Nazi,” “fascist,” etc. – and the “woke” language used by many college-educated white liberals was used. .

“So I think that’s the message: the reason they’re showing up is because they’re tired of being abused, they’re tired of being demoted, they’re tired of these characterizations simply because they support a candidate who according to them. for them.

In terms of the issues, Ehrlich argued that Harris’ inability to provide strong answers to questions or provide a view on economic hardship and immigration concerns as one of the biggest nails in her electoral coffin.

All of that was also reflected in the way the vice president vastly underperformed in deep blue strongholds like Illinois and New Jersey, winning by only single digits in states that Joe Biden won by double.

“If you look at the constituent elements of what happened: you had a bad environment for an incumbent; you had a bad political climate where 70% of the country said the US was on the wrong chat…you had these mini realignments you had a historic change of direction; you had this weird basement strategy where someone who wasn’t defined refused to define themselves… and then, finally, the surrogates repeatedly offended half the country.