Why Harris lost the election, in one simple map

Early this morning, Republican candidate Donald Trump was elected president after a win in the swing state of Wisconsin tipped him over the threshold of 270 electoral college votes necessary to secure the post. To many Democrats—who were invigorated by the energy of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and reported feeling more hopeful than their Republican counterparts—the results came as a shock. But a new map from the New York Times paints a striking picture of exactly why Harris...