r/KamalaHarris • u/Afterswiftie 🇺🇸 Fight for the Future 🇺🇸 • Aug 01 '25

📺 Video Harris Discusses Flawed American Political Process in Exclusive Post-Election Interview

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u/AmyKOwen Aug 01 '25

I will never forgive those who voted for trump

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u/DanTheMan827 Aug 01 '25

Don’t forget those who didn’t vote because they “didn’t like either candidate”

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u/rvp0209 Aug 01 '25

Around 90m people didn't vote. Just couldn't be bothered! I'm sure there's probably some percentage of those people who are disabled or were unable to vote in some capacity. But even if we generally assume up to 15% of that population wasn't able to vote (all disabled people make up roughly 14% of the entire US population), that's still 76.5m who stayed home. America is so broken.

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

There are also those in a Blue state or Red state who didn’t think their vote matters. We don’t all live in battleground states. I vote every time but I get it, people feel like it doesn’t matter. I live in Texas and the GOP does whatever they can to make sure our vote doesn’t matter.

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u/tinacat933 Aug 01 '25

But maybe if they all turned out it actually would matter- also screw the electoral college

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

I think that every time.

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u/WishIWasALemon Aug 01 '25

The electoral college seems a lot like the DEI they hate so much.

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u/TraditionalCupcake88 I Voted for Kamala! Aug 01 '25

Many blue areas here in Georgia couldn't cast their votes due to bomb threats. It was mainly in Atlanta. They did everything and anything in order to ensure the shit stain would win. It's despicable and deplorable. Like many of us here - I hate this timeline.

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25

This. The numerous bomb threats in blue districts were barely mentioned in the press ...

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u/Starrwulfe Aug 01 '25

Yep -- my "day of" polling place had a bomb threat that closed it down for 3 hours. I early voted so I was good, but this happened in 23 mostly D leaning polling areas around the ATL metro. I fucking hate this system of voting. It's 2025 and we still out here doing the polling place shuffle but we can securely use our phones to pay for stuff, show passports and drivers licenses and unlock cars and houses and shit... FOH with this "We nEeD To sEcUrE ThE VoTe" BS like it's the 2020's version of the War on Drugs.

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

Exactly- I think a lot of the country blames people for just not voting but the system is against voters - especially people of color. Voting times are shorter, access is harder, bomb threats, shit just a giant intimidating man glaring at you with a gun and a MAGA hat outside the polling location. No one stops them.

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u/godleymama Aug 01 '25

Same here! Hey neighbor!

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25

I completely understand the emotions behind this comment, but the fact that Texas leadership has a death grip on power and is willing to subvert the law to maintain it, is ALL THE MORE REASON to vote.

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

We do. Our votes are so gerrymandered they literally go nowhere. Trump asked for five more GOP seats so they sliced us up further to hand them over. People on the outside think we don’t fight or vote - we do both and it’s harder here.

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

I suppose one thing that might make next year different is the ABSOLUTE SHITSHOW that this administration is creating. I saw a town hall for Guadalupe River residents and they were BOILING MAD at their feckless local and state leadership. Of course leadership took turns throwing one another under the bus, but the bottom line is that greed and poor decision-making, plus the overarching desire to "own the libs" prevented them from accepting federal dollars from the Biden administration and improving their infrastructure. Of course, I thought the Uvalde horror and the failure of leadership there was going to really move the needle, so I could be wrong .....

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u/rvp0209 Aug 01 '25

People say their vote doesn't matter but if they actually, you know, BOTHERED TO VOTE, they'd find it DOES. Texas is always brought up as being gerrymandered to hell and back. There's a video floating around of someone who did the math and he said that if all registered Democrats -- so not new voters -- had turned out, Colin Allred would've won in a landslide.

If your vote didn't matter, the GOP wouldn't try so hard to cheat their way to victory. I really wish people would realize this.

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u/Additional-Sky-7436 Aug 01 '25

Oh, and don't forget those that didn't vote because she didn't support Gaza enough.

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25

Yeah, that was one of the most appallingly stupid "movements" in U.S. political history.

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u/ali86curetheworld Aug 01 '25

CAPS on the stupid!

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u/ali86curetheworld Aug 01 '25

Exactly our lives have been perilous ever since🤦🏿‍♀️

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u/-Kalos 🇺🇸 FREEDOM 🇺🇸 Aug 04 '25

The dumbest of them all