How MAHA micro-influencers changed the election
New 2030 reapportionment outlook, the Trump fertility bump, worrying overdose trends, class-based party perceptions on the decline, fewer bills but more pages of legislation, 1-800-CHATGPT
No. 342 | December 20, 2024
🇺🇲 2024
Via Ryan Davis, a look at how RFK Jr.’s supporters and MAHA micro-influencers drove the message home to women voters.
Kamala Harris struggled to gain support from prominent athletes this election season, while Trump was featured prominently on non-political podcasts:
The campaign’s failure to completely crack the sports sphere was, to Flaherty, ominous, and part of a larger trend in which some influencers who had felt comfortable engaging with the Biden White House, demurred when asked to help Harris make her case to their followers. “When it’s not cool to talk about politics,” he said, “you’re kind of afraid of the audience.”
👫 Demographics
New Census population estimates for 2030 show a lessening of reapportionment losses for Blue States, but this would still close off the Democrats’ Rust Belt-only path that this year would have netted 270 electoral votes.
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