Why Kamala Harris lost the election

[Timber Rattler]

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

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.

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.

[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]

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.

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

[240B]

She lost because she was a HORRIBLE candidate. The more she spoke and campaigned, the more blatantly clear it became to everyone that she is mentally retarded, not pejorative, in the clinical medical sense. She has the demeanor, the gravitas, and the intellect of any average 13 year old girl.

[Bigun]

She lost because she was a HORRIBLE candidate. The more she spoke and campaigned, the more blatantly clear it became to everyone that she is mentally retarded, not pejorative, in the clinical medical sense. She has the demeanor, the gravitas, and the intellect of any average 13 year old girl.

Which explains why Biden picked her to be his VP.

[libertybele]

Sure she was a lousy candidate and she certainly couldn't ride on Joe's coattails as he was such a failure.  Which brings questions. I continue to wonder why the DEM party didn't have Joe step down or why they didn't insert someone at the convention who would have made a much better candidate.  It's hard to believe with Soros/Obama on the sidelines the DEMS continued on with Harris who never was even truly elected.

Joe won by the DEMS cheating, which also brings question as to why him? Why did they want him in place so badly?  I think he was more of a liability with his son wrapped up in dealings with Burisma. Perhaps his ties to Ukraine and ties to China were a guaranteed moneymaker.

Perhaps all in all they just overplayed the hand that they thought they had?

To me, something just seems off with the whole Biden/Harris show.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

She was just a bad, unlikable candidate I think. Plus people know they were better off under Trump. Those two factors IMO.

[DB]

You know, Kamala could still remove Biden using the 25th amendment.... Nuking anymore pardons from him in the process....

[Hoodat]

You know, Kamala could still remove Biden using the 25th amendment.... Nuking anymore pardons from him in the process....

But that would require her to do actual work.

[verga]

But that would require her to do actual work.

If she is sober she might be desperate enough.

[Timber Rattler]

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

So Kamala's a racist now, eh?

[Timber Rattler]

Sure she was a lousy candidate and she certainly couldn't ride on Joe's coattails as he was such a failure.  Which brings questions. I continue to wonder why the DEM party didn't have Joe step down or why they didn't insert someone at the convention who would have made a much better candidate.  It's hard to believe with Soros/Obama on the sidelines the DEMS continued on with Harris who never was even truly elected.

It was all about the money.  The only way they could legally access the Biden-Harris Campaign accounts was by leaving her on the ticket since her name was already on all the paperwork.  Otherwise, if they had nominated someone else when they pushed Biden out, then he would have walked away with the entire warchest, leaving the DNC and other nominee with nothing.

[verga]

Sure she was a lousy candidate and she certainly couldn't ride on Joe's coattails as he was such a failure.  Which brings questions. I continue to wonder why the DEM party didn't have Joe step down or why they didn't insert someone at the convention who would have made a much better candidate.  It's hard to believe with Soros/Obama on the sidelines the DEMS continued on with Harris who never was even truly elected.

Joe won by the DEMS cheating, which also brings question as to why him? Why did they want him in place so badly?  I think he was more of a liability with his son wrapped up in dealings with Burisma. Perhaps his ties to Ukraine and ties to China were a guaranteed moneymaker.

Perhaps all in all they just overplayed the hand that they thought they had?

To me, something just seems off with the whole Biden/Harris show.

Just spitballing and Monday morning quarterbacking here. I think it was one of two things. 1) they realized she was a shitty candidate and could not win no matter what. Do everything they can to screw over Trump and make him look inept. Then if 4 years run Iron Mike against Vance. 2) Use every dirty trick they have to get get Kameltoe into office and let her be another Obozo Soros  puppet.