footnotes
U.S. Election Postmortem (Part One) - How Trump Won
1 Bowman, Bridget. “Two-thirds of voters say the country is on the wrong track ahead of the 2024 election, NBC News, 26 September 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/two-thirds-voters-say-country-wrong-track-ahead-2024-election-rcna172873
2 “Pelosi suggests Biden should have exited campaign sooner, New York Times reports,” Reuters, 8 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pelosi-suggests-biden-should-have-exited-campaign-sooner-new-york-times-reports-2024-11-08/)
3 Walker, Jackson. “Pelosi claims VP Harris won ‘open primary,’ points to fact ‘nobody else got in the race’,” CBS Austin, 19 September 2024. Retrieved from: https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/pelosi-claims-vp-harris-won-open-primary-points-to-fact-nobody-else-got-in-the-racerep-nancy-pelosi-california-democrat-claimed-wednesday-vice-president-kamala-harris-election-biden-trump-2024-november-president
4 Shukla, Prateek. “Biden should resign, says Kamala's ex-aide, so she can be 1st woman US Prez.” Business Standard, 11 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/biden-should-resign-says-kamala-s-ex-aide-so-she-can-be-1st-woman-us-prez-124111100403_1.html)
5 Ibid
6 Lydia Maria and Lucretia Mott (Liberty Party, 1847); Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to formally run for president (Equal Rights Party, 1872); Belva Ann Lockwood (Equal Rights Party, 1884 and 1888); Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart (Democratic Party, 1920); Margaret Chase Smith (Republican Party, 1964); Charlene Mitchell, the first Black woman to run for president and the first to receive valid votes in a general election (Communist Party, 1968); Shirley Chisholm, the first Black candidate to contest the nomination of a major party, and the first such candidate to win a primary (Democratic Party, 1972); Patsy Mink, the first Asian American woman to run for president (Democratic Party, 1972); Lenora Fulani, the first Black woman to achieve ballot access in fifty states (New Alliance Party, 1988 and 1992); Elizabeth Dole (Republican Party, 2000);Carol Mosely Braun (Democratic Party, 2004); Hillary Clinton, the first woman to be listed as a presidential candidate in every state and territory (Democratic Party, 2008); Cynthia McKinney (Green Party, 2008); Jill Stein (Green Party 2012, 2016, and 2024);Gloria La Riva (Party for Socialism and Liberation 2008, 2016, and 2020); Peta Lindsay (Party for Socialism and Liberation, 2012); Claudia De La Cruz (Party for Socialism and Liberation, 2024); Michele Bachmann (Republican Party, 2012); Rosanne Barr (Peace and Freedom Party, 2012); Carly Fiorina (Republican Party, 2016); Faith Spotted Eagle, the first Indigenous American to receive a faithless electoral vote for president (2016); Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Kristen Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marianne Williamson (Democratic Party, 2020); Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party, 2020); Nikki Haley (Republican Party, 2024); and Kamala Harris (Democratic Party, 2024). Only Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris stood as the formal presidential candidate to stand for the presidency of either the Democratic or Republican party. Wikipedia. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_United_States_presidential_and_vice_presidential_candidates)
7 Luc Cohen and Jack Queen. “Trump loses bid to toss hush money conviction on immunity grounds, Reuters, 16 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-denies-trumps-bid-throw-out-conviction-over-immunity-ruling-ny-times-2024-12-17/
8 Zakaria, Fareed. “Fareed’s take: Democrats blew it by making three big mistakes,” CNN, November 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yx_re0FyZM
9 Amanpour, Christine. “As a veteran Democrat, where does Rahm Emanuel think his party went wrong,” CNN, 4 December 2024. Retrieved from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFfrgKZztU)
10 Recent numbers suggested that from “growth and jobs to investment and business creation, the economy has performed substantially better under Biden than it did under Trump.” Official data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are clear: after inflation, GDP had grown at a 3.4 percent average annual rate since Biden became president, while Trump trailed badly at an average 1.8 percent growth rate. From 2017 to 2019, the economy grew an average of 2.8 percent per year, a rate still 18
percent lower than under Biden. (Source: Robert J. Shapiro. “Data Don’t Lie: Biden’s Economic Record is Much Better than Trump’s,” The Washington Monthly, 26 January 2024. Retrieved from: