Former MD Gov. says both parties will be 'talking about realignment ... for years'

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The 2024 election shattered the Democrats' coalition of the last two decades as Donald Trump made major gains virtually every major demographic.

According to The Financial Times' survey, Democrats only made slight gains with people over the age of 65 and white, college-educated women.

Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich emphasized this reshuffling of the coalitions, and what the reshuffling will mean for both parties for the years to come, as part of his post-election analysis for The National News Desk Wednesday morning.

"You really see the realignment in the Midwest," he noted.

Ehrlich also said the realignment is not limited to race, but there is a strong working class realignment as well as seen in the presence of organized labor at some of Trump's rallies in the so-called blue wall battleground states.

"What really struck me was the presence of organized labor ... one element of these mini-realignments is organized labor."

He further argued that part of the realignments could be seen coming from the rhetoric Democrats used on the trail against the Trump campaign - like "Nazi," "fascist" etc. - and the "woke" language used by many college-educated white liberals.

"So, I think that's the message: the reason they're turning out is they're tired of getting abused, they're tired of getting degraded, they're tired of these characterizations simply because they support a candidate who they think speaks for them.

In terms of the issues, Ehrlich argued that Harris' inability to give strong responses to questions or provide a vision for economic hardships and concerns over immigration as one of the biggest nails in her electoral coffin.

That all also reflected in the way the vice president vastly underperformed in deep blue strong holds like Illinois and New Jersey, winning only single digits in states Joe Biden won by double.

"If you look at the constituent elements of what occurred: you had a bad environment for an incumbent; you had a bad political environment where 70% of the country said the USA was on the wrong chat ... you had this mini-realignments; you had this historic course change; you had this weird basement strategy where someone who was undefined refused to define herself ... and then, finally, with the surrogates insulting half the country, repeatedly. "