Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren was, is, and always will be a complete and total embarrassment. I mean, we’re talking about a woman who, for years, mooched off government subsidies that were awarded because she claimed to be a Native American. Which turned out to be totally false, a claim that would have been obvious to anyone with common sense. And now, it turns out, she actually pulled in fewer votes on Election Day in her state than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ouch.
And yet, as The Daily Wire points out, Warren won the race in her state while Harris lost the White House to President-elect Donald Trump in a landslide, even with the electoral votes from Massachusetts. Harris received a total of 2,074,446 votes, while Warren garnered only 1,988,453. So Warren ended up with 85,993 fewer votes than the vice president after 95 percent of the vote was counded, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Harris also received a higher percentage of votes than Warren. Harris won Massachusetts with 61.3% of the vote, while Warren received 59.3% in her re-election bid – a slight difference of two percentage points. CNN gave Warren even worse numbers, showing her nearly 500,000 votes behind Harris, although the news outlet based that on data showing just 76% of the votes in.
Senate races tend to get less attention than presidential ones, but the vote differences between President-elect Donald Trump and Tim Sheehy, who defeated incumbent Jon Tester (D-MT), are much smaller. Trump received 351,783 to Sheehy’s 319,432 – a difference of 32,351, or less than half the difference in raw vote totals between Harris and Warren. But Montana is a less populated state, so the percentage of votes shows a larger gap between Trump and Sheehy, 58.1% to 52.6%, respectively, according to CNN’s numbers.
Rhode Island, another deep blue state that borders Massachusetts, also showed closer margins between Harris and the Democrat Senate candidate in that state. Harris won the state with 282,915 votes, or 55.5%, while incumbent Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) won with 293,265 votes, or 59.9%. Whitehouse performed better than Harris in his re-election bid, according to CNN’s election results.
You’d think that having such a poor performance would instill a little humility in Warren. That, however, does not seem to be the case. In fact, she has already been leveling accusations at political opponents of being “extremists.” Typical.
“The far right wants us to feel powerless,” Warren went on to say in a post on X on Thursday. “Extremists are counting on apathy, cynicism, & heartbreak to be their rocket fuel. They are counting on us to point fingers at each other & lose trust in our ability to make change. I absolutely refuse to give them the satisfaction.”
The far right wants us to feel powerless. Extremists are counting on apathy, cynicism, & heartbreak to be their rocket fuel. They are counting on us to point fingers at each other & lose trust in our ability to make change.
I absolutely refuse to give them the satisfaction.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 14, 2024
She then put Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, on blast, totally ignoring the fact he served over 2 decades in our armed forces, going on to do a little bragging about being on the Senate military personnel panel, though she never served.
“A Fox & Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense,” Warren remarked. “I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.”
A Fox & Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers.
Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected. https://t.co/6ADUJSm8x6
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 13, 2024
“Warren’s poor showing compared to Harris could be due to her being the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government bureaucracy that has made it more difficult for people to get credit, according to The American Consumer Institute. The pinch has been felt especially since inflation rose under the Biden administration,” the report finished.
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