(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Illinois Republican women are weighing in why they think Vice President Kamala Harris was not able to garner the support of the women voters she thought she would.
"She just wasn't on target at all, as far as women's values," President of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women Lana Soldat said.
Lana Soldat said she doesn't think there's anything Vice President Harris could have done in her campaigning to garner the support from women that she needed to win the election.
"I'm just not thinking she had anything right in her policymaking… she didn't fit the bill"
According to early exit polls, Harris underperformed with white women voters compared to President Joe Biden in 2020, as well as President-elect Trump. Soldat said she is not surprised.
"We all want liberty, we all want freedom, I just think that the Democrats' policies don't line up at all with what we want in America."
Soldat said she is not bothered by the sexual assault allegations Trump has garnered from nearly 30 women or that he was convicted of 34 felony counts.
Democrats are trying to figure out why Harris lost an election that was projected to be much closer.
Former Harris advisor and founder of a Chicago-based political consulting firm Mike Nellis said as much as Democrats tried to stress the economy is in good shape, that message didn't filter down to voters.
“If people are going to the grocery store every day, and filling up their gas tank, and seeing their prices being higher, and seeing their paychecks being squeezed – they're going to blame the party in power and that was us,” Nellis said.
He stands by the vice president as being a great candidate but said the party needs to make some changes.
“We have lost the presidential race to someone who, in my opinion, ran one of the worst presidential campaigns I've ever seen.”
The day after the election, Nellis said he's already looking at exit polling data to learn why democrats are losing rural, Hispanic and male voters.
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