A professor cackled as she recalled telling a supermarket worker he was wrong Trump would win while buying champagne to toast a Kamala Harris victory.
Dr Arlene Battishill filmed herself earlier this week predicting a Democrat blowout – and roared with laughter at the memory of taunting a store clerk over 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 studied political science at Temple Hill University according to her Linkedin, says she has 40 years of experience in politics.
She claimed that Harris would storm to victory because women motivated by abortion rights, would get out and vote in their droves.
Dr Arlene Battishill gloated about buying champagne to toast Kamala Harris ‘ election win was swiftly left humbled after her devastating loss
‘I was talking to the guy in the store asking him did she vote […] he asked me why I was getting the champagne and I said, “because I’m going to be toasting madam president tonight” and he kind of looked at me with a smirk on his face,’ Battishill explained.
‘I said, “you know she is 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 manically as she recalled telling him, ‘you know you wasted your vote right?’.
A chastened Battishill, who begs strangers to send her money on Cash App, is then seen the morning after in a clip captioned, ‘election hangover’.
‘So as you know, Kamala Harris did not win the election,’ she sighs, before explaining that less people got out to vote than in 2020.
Battishill claims her modelling was wrong because she was not able to account for the impact of ‘racism and misogyny’.
Her reaction echoed that of MSNBC’s Joy Reid who called black voters in Houston, Texas ‘deeply suppressed’.
Reid and others have also blamed white women for failing to turn out for Harris and help her become the United States’ first female president.
Despite polling suggesting the race could be one of the tightest in history, Trump managed to smash the electoral college vote whilst scooping the majority of the popular vote – a feat which has not been achieved by the Republicans since 2004.
Battishill predicted a Democrat blowout and filmed herself cackling as she recounted how she taunted the grocery store clerk over his ‘wasted vote’
But her glee quickly turned to despair when the full extent of Trump’s landslide victory became apparent
Most pundits have placed Harris’ defeat on a variety of factors including her inability to convince Americans she represented a change from the Biden administration whilst also proving she had been an active vice president.
Harris enjoyed a spectacular Democrat National Convention in July with a speech that moved many – and was soon basking in far more donor cash than Trump.
But her campaign quickly lost its initial momentum as the vice president and senior Democrats devoted substantial energies to bashing Trump, rather than outlining their own vision for the United States.
others pointed to massive gains made by Donald Trump among black and Hispanic voters as what helped propel him towards the White House.
Republican Chair Amy Carnevale attributed the support to effective messaging from Trump around the issues which matter most to Americans such as inflation and immigration.
The blame game has already started within the Democrat camp, with DNC Chair Jaime Harrison announcing he will not seek re-nomination next year.
