A lot of people are saying the Democrats won.

Vice President JD Vance said otherwise about what the vote meant. He said the 2024 Trump voters did not stay home. They showed up, and a lot of them voted for Democrats because they were angry. He said the reason Republicans lost was the war. The papers and the writings the morning after read the same way. Voters turned on Trump. They did not hand the Democratic Party a program to carry out.

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That is not a mandate. A mandate is permission. It is the public saying you have our blessing, and our command, to go forward with Democratic Party principles. This was not that.

I do not believe people were voting for the Democrats. It was an anti-Trump vote. There was so much hatred out there for him, and it had a cause. People looked at the corruption in his crypto deals and at the billions he set out to make. He is issuing himself his own bank. He did not close tax loopholes for the rich. He created more of them. He turned people against him by manhandling them with ICE. And it goes on and on.

Inflation belongs on that list. Part of it comes from the wars, and especially the war with Iran. Oil went up. When oil goes up, it goes into everything. Truckers pay more to move the goods, and then everybody else pays more. Groceries, gasoline, and the rest of the bill go up with it.

In no way was this a vote for the Democrats. It was an anti-Trump vote.