Democrats didn't seem to put a whole lot of resources into carrying the state, they more or less took it for granted.
The dissatisfaction was clear in local election results. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, lost her reelection, and in the East Bay two progressives, Oakland's Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, were overwhelmingly recalled from office.
People were just looking at their bills, paying a lot more than they did four years earlier, and that hurt the Democrats.
Despite multiple visits for fundraisers and efforts to mobilize supporters, Harris and Biden garnered 6.3 million fewer votes nationally than in 2020.
Collection
[
|
...
]