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Why Kamala Harris lost the election

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Timber Rattler:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/how-bidens-vulnerabilities-led-to-a-bloodbath-for-harris-00187807


--- Quote ---In the final sprint to the election, Kamala Harris’ campaign — at her insistence, aides and allies said — started playing Donald Trump’s most incendiary comments on the jumbotrons at her rallies, displaying in technicolor his meandering, racist and, sometimes, violent rhetoric.

It was an emphatic reminder of the stakes of the election. And it hardly seemed to help her at all. The result Wednesday was brutal for Harris, a bloodbath for Democrats across the map.

Harris inherited a campaign from Joe Biden over the summer that appeared to be flatlining, given the president’s unpopularity and inability to carry a message. And after Democrats excised Biden from the ticket, she rapidly consolidated her moribund party, rallying women, setting TikTok and Instagram creators ablaze with supportive memes and raising eye-popping sums from donors.

But the momentum advisers insisted she’d built failed to materialize. She never sufficiently buried Biden’s ghost, severely hamstringing her ability to sell voters on the idea that hers was the turn-the-page candidacy.

It happened, simply, because Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years when voters indicated that’s what they wanted. Worse, she hesitated to draw any daylight between herself and her boss on Biden’s biggest vulnerability — his stewardship over the economy — nor identify any specific way her presidency would be different from his tenure beyond naming a Republican to her Cabinet.
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They're still whistling past the graveyard.  And oh yeah, Harris was already plotting behind Biden's back weeks before Obama and Pelosi shivved him.


--- Quote ---And her plan was relatively straightforward. Even before Democrats pushed Biden from the top of the ticket, Harris had quietly laid the groundwork for her campaign weeks earlier when she gathered several of her top advisers and a few close allies to begin preparing for what they imagined would be the vice presidential debate.
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verga:
She was unable to simultaneously embrace Biden and distance herself from the administration record. She was "The agent of Change" , but wsas unable to articulate waht the change would look like.

Benjamin:
She thought a campaign of I’m not Trump was enough.
Because in her mind,(like most democrats )it couldn’t have been the failed liberal policies of the last four years….

Add to that, her refusal to answer questions about her position on policy issues. Take the ME. She refused to answer because she didn’t want to alienate either side. Doing so, she alienated both sides.
We know Trump’s position. That’s why hamas was calling for an end to the war the very next day following Trump’s landslide victory. (As an aside, had ANY democrat achieved the Abraham Accord, they would have received the Nobel)

Meanwhile gaslighting people on inflation and the border only worked with her base , who  were going to vote blue anyway .

Benjamin:

--- Quote from: verga on November 08, 2024, 12:32:54 pm ---She was unable to simultaneously embrace Biden and distance herself from the administration record. She was "The agent of Change" , but wsas unable to articulate waht the change would look like.

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It’s difficult to call for change, when you’re what needs changing……

mountaineer:
Bad Hombre
@joma_gc
In a bombshell NYT report, minority campaign staffers are coming forward with scathing allegations against Kamala Harris’s campaign, accusing it of racism and mistreatment. They claim:

- Black staffers’ input were routinely ignored by Kamala Harris and campaign leadership.

- White staffers allegedly received preferential treatment, enjoying better office spaces and perks like paid meals.

- Campaign offices in minority areas lacked basic necessities—supplies, campaign materials, and working internet and computer equipment, and running water; leaving them no option but to meet up at places like Dunkin Donuts for free WiFi to do their work.

- Staff working in minority communities claim they often had to pay out of pocket for essentials like yard signs and printing services.
5:53 PM · Dec 9, 2024

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