Smile wiped off face of cackling professor who bought champagne to toast Kamala win
One professor laughed as she recalled telling a supermarket worker he was wrong. Trump would win while buying champagne to toast Kamala Harris’ victory.
Dr. Arlene Battishill filmed herself earlier this week predicting a Democratic blowout – and howled with laughter at the memory of taunting a shop assistant for his ‘wasted vote’.
But her gloating quickly went viral after Harris’ spectacular loss to Trump, with Battishill posting a subsequent video blaming racism and sexism for the result.
Battishill, who according to her Linkedin studied political science at Temple Hill University, says she has forty years of experience in politics.
She claimed that Harris would storm to victory because women, motivated by abortion rights, would vote en masse.
Dr. Arlene Battishill delighted in buying champagne to toast Kamala Harris’ election victory, but was quickly humiliated after her devastating loss
“I spoke to the man in the store and asked him if she had voted […] he asked me why I got the champagne and I said, ‘because I’m going to toast Madam President tonight,’ and he looked at me with a grin on his face,” Battishill explained.
“I said, ‘Do you know she’s going to win this right? The women of America are making their voices heard, reproductive rights is what it all comes down to.”
She then started laughing maniacally as she remembered telling him, “You know you wasted your voice, right?”
A chastened Battishill, begging strangers to send her money via Cash App, is seen the next morning in a segment titled “election hangover.”
“So as you know, Kamala Harris did not win the election,” she sighs, before explaining that fewer people voted than in 2020.
Battishill claims her modeling was wrong because she failed to take into account the impact of ‘racism and misogyny’.
Her response echoed that of MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who called black voters in Houston, Texas “deeply oppressed.”
Reid and others have also accused white women of failing to support Harris and help her become the first female president of the United States.
Despite polls showing that the race could be one of the tightest in history, Trump managed to defeat the Electoral College votes while capturing a majority of the popular vote – a feat not achieved by Republicans since 2004 reaches.
Battishill predicted an outburst from the Democrat and filmed herself cackling as she told how she taunted the store clerk for his “wasted vote”
But her joy quickly turned to despair as the full extent of Trump’s landslide victory became clear
Most pundits have attributed Harris’ defeat to several factors, including her inability to convince Americans that she represented a change from the Biden administration while also proving 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 he was able to raise far more donor money than Trump.
But her campaign quickly lost its initial momentum as the vice president and senior Democrats spent significant energy bashing Trump, rather than outlining their own vision for the United States.
Others pointed to Donald Trump’s huge gains among black and Hispanic voters, which helped propel him to the White House.
Republican Chairman Amy Carnevale attributed the support to effective messaging from Trump on the issues that matter most to Americans, such as inflation and immigration.
The blame game has already begun within the Democratic camp, with DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison announcing he will not seek renomination next year.