'I feel let down': Democrats crestfallen in Atlanta - as party faces reckoning

In Atlanta, Democrats are crestfallen.

ChiChi Khan, a 26-year-old Democrat, is stunned by however overmuch much Kamala Harris needed to win.

"The disparity betwixt the results is shocking for sure. I deliberation that's the astir shocking portion of it. Just however overmuch much we needed to person gotten her elected," she says.

For her friend, Dr Reyna Patterson, besides 26, it's a depressing motion of the limits successful America for radical of colour.

"Obama was similar our pinnacle. It's similar we got that 1 historical thing. But we can't inquire for thing else. Don't effort and interruption much boundaries. The solid ceiling is gone," she says.

It is the 2nd clip a pistillate has tried to interruption that solid ceiling.

Hillary Clinton enactment her sex and individuality authorities centre framework successful the contention successful 2016. Harris often seemed to debar it, focusing alternatively connected issues.

But however she prioritised those risks volition beryllium poured implicit for months and years to travel by Democratic strategists. Harris enactment reproductive rights astatine the apical of her run agenda.

There were immoderate wins - restrictive termination bans were undone successful 7 states. But, ultimately, it didn't wage disconnected for Democrats and activists astatine the crisp extremity consciousness abandoned.

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Dazon Dixon Diallo, laminitis of SisterLove, which focuses connected reproductive rights and wellness told me: "I consciousness fto down honestly archetypal and foremost by achromatic women voters successful this country.

"They voted astatine astir the nonstop aforesaid complaint that they voted successful 2016 for the aforesaid idiosyncratic who is simply a convicted felon... and is proudly telling you that helium snatched distant your reproductive rights."

It's a stark reminder of the disagreement successful the country. But successful agrarian and suburban areas similar Acworth - northbound of Atlanta, it was different anxieties that dominated.

Susan Butler, a mother-of-four, tells maine implicit lunch: "I don't deliberation Harris ever talked astir thing that were points that meant the astir to me: the economy, immigration, the transgression that came with the immigration."

Interestingly, she is besides not convinced America is acceptable for a pistillate successful the White House.

"A pistillate who served astatine a precocious fertile successful the subject mightiness precise good marque a bully president, but a pistillate who's been a authoritative successful a precise near state, I don't deliberation so!"

It is simply a reminder of however accepted America inactive is. I've heard that sentiment from men and women crossed 3 elections. The sex spread did play into this one.

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More women than men did backmost Harris. But she needed an earthquake. What she got was person to a rumble - 1 eclipsed by the large cries of young men.

The Democrats believed this was going to beryllium the twelvemonth of the woman. Instead, the young women I spoke to told maine contiguous they find it hard to ideate they volition person a Madam President successful their lifetime.

It was fears and heavy feelings astir the economy, migration and ideology that drove the vote. And the Democrats are yet again reminded, they cannot instrumentality immoderate contented oregon immoderate radical for granted.