Down-ballot results in 2024 do not show a red wave; Republicans will win the Senate and House, but many endangered Democrats in swing states are holding on, and looking at Senate and House races, many incumbents who are not Biden/Harris did just fine, showing the anger was specific to the Biden Administration's record rather than broad anti-incumbent or anti-Democratic sentiment.

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Claire Gordon

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plenty of Democrat[s] did just fine...there was specific anger at the Biden Administration and that was what Trump was able to take advantage of not just support for him but a genuine disappointment people had in what the Biden haris Administration has wrought

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Where Does This Leave Democrats?The Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:03:01 PM

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