One teacher laughed as she recalled telling a grocery store worker he was wrong that Trump would win while buying champagne to toast Kamala Harris’ victory.
Dr. Arlene Battishill filmed herself earlier this week predicting a Democratic explosion and laughed out loud as she recalled how she mocked a store clerk for his “wasted vote.”
But his gloating quickly went viral after Harris’ spectacular loss to Trump, and Battishill posted a subsequent video blaming racism and sexism for the outcome.
Battishill, who studied political science at Temple Hill University according to his Linkedin, says he has 40 years of experience in politics.
He claimed that Harris would achieve victory because women motivated by abortion rights would come out and vote in droves.
Dr. Arlene Battishill gloated as she bought champagne to toast Kamala Harris’ election victory and was quickly left humiliated after her devastating loss.
“I was talking to the guy in the store asking him if she voted (…) he asked me why I was ordering champagne and I told him, “because I’m going to toast Madam President tonight” and he kind of “looked at me with a smile on his face,” Battishill explained.
“I said, ‘You know she’s going to win this, right?’ “America’s women are making their voices heard, it all comes down to reproductive rights.”
Then he started laughing like crazy as he remembered telling her, ‘You know you wasted your vote, right?’
A chastened Battishill, begging strangers to send her money via Cash App, appears the next morning in a clip titled “election hangover.”
“As you know, Kamala Harris did not win the election,” he sighs, before explaining that fewer people came out to vote than in 2020.
Battishill claims his model was incorrect because it was unable to explain the impact of “racism and misogyny.”
His reaction echoed that of MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who called black voters in Houston, Texas, “deeply repressed.”
Reid and others have also blamed white women for not supporting Harris and helping her become the first female president of the United States.
Despite polls suggesting the race could be one of the closest in history, Trump managed to crush the electoral college vote while winning a majority of the popular vote, a feat Republicans have not accomplished since 2004. .
Battishill predicted a Democratic explosion and filmed himself laughing as he recounted how he mocked the grocery store clerk for his “wasted vote.”
But their joy quickly turned to despair as the full extent of Trump’s landslide victory became clear.
Most experts have attributed Harris’ loss to a variety of factors, including her inability to convince Americans that she represented a change from the Biden administration while demonstrating that she had been an active vice president.
Harris enjoyed a spectacular Democratic National Convention in July with a speech that moved many, and soon began enjoying far more donor money than Trump.
But his campaign quickly lost its initial momentum as the vice president and top Democrats devoted considerable energy to attacking Trump, rather than outlining their own vision for America.
Others pointed to the huge gains Donald Trump made among black and Hispanic voters as what helped propel him to the White House.
Republican Chairwoman Amy Carnevale attributed the support to Trump’s effective messaging on the issues that matter most to Americans, such as inflation and immigration.
The blame game has already begun within the Democratic field, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison announcing that he will not seek a new nomination next year.
