DC’s blizzard flop is another lesson on government power 

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In the 2024 presidential election, Democrat Kamala Harris carried Berkeley, California, with 88.2% of the vote. She won Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 87.6% of the vote. In King County, Washington, home of Seattle, the Democratic ticket received 73.7% of ballots cast.

These were landslide margins by any standard or definition. Harris lost the national popular vote and was swept across the swing states by President Donald Trump, but she still racked up towering margins in the nation’s bluest areas.

But none of the aforementioned jurisdictions could “out-blue” our nation’s capital. More