"On Tuesday 3 November 2026, all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the US Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. 39 state and territorial US gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, will also be contested."
The 2024 Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket lost because of these three reasons according to the Democratic Party report card:
1) Chronic and Acute Economic Frustrations
2) Cumulative Right-Wing Media Advantage
3) Movement Alignment
Movement alignment: "Recent cycles have shown that Democrats are more likely to win when campaigns are aligned with movement forces and energy. Exhibit A is Joe Biden administration's handling of Israel's war in Gaza. Both movement activists and many ordinary voters were horrified by the Biden White House's shockingly ineffective and callous approach to Gaza, combined with the equally shocking unwillingness of the party apparatus to even engage with reasonable critics.
That ultimately dampened the enthusiasm and support of some of the Democratic Party's most engaged and reliable supporters."
Further granularity from www.commondreams.org:
"A recent poll found that among the 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in the 2024 election, nearly a third " -- about 29% -- "cited the US government's support for Israel's war on Gaza as the top reason for staying home.
This means roughly 5.7 million Democratic voters did not cast a ballot in 2024 because of the administration's stance on Gaza, which many described as a genocide.
This issue was the most frequently cited reason, even above concerns about the economy or immigration."
Between the winning 2020 and losing 2024 elections, Democrats lost 6,265,888 votes. The Democratic Party of 1968 lost felt the same sting because of their support of the brutal Saigon regime and the Vietnam War. Between 1964 and 1968 the Democratic Party lost about 12 million voters with the Vietnam War being a major factor in this decline.
Source: Supporting Genocide Sunk the Democrats
