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Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.
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Pretty much, although it's probably an exaggeration to call them Democrats. In reality most of them are likely unaffiliated with any party. But it was literally Harris's job to convince them to come out and vote for her and she failed at it. When a candidate loses an election, barring election interference, it's their fault. Harris fucked us all by running as a diet Republican. Odds are anyone in here reading this did everything we could to hand her the win, but she pissed it all away by trying to steal votes from the Republicans instead of convincing people that they needed to get off their asses and come vote for her.
Dude, she had like 100 days to put together a campaign. She had to make a gamble and trust that the 2020 Dem voters were already in her corner so she could go after some big fish with the little time she had.
Dude, lets be real. The only reason the DNC pushed Biden out of the way was because polling numbers said the incumbent advantage (and his policies) weren't going to be enough to win it for him. So Kamala comes out of the gate with a boost (because she's not Joe) and promptly proclaims she can't name a single policy decision she would have made differently than Biden. That's not winning undecided voters from either side.
Literally not true. Were you just not paying attention?
Shortly after becoming candidate, she was asked in an interview if she could think of anything she would have done different than Biden. She replied:
I voted for Harris but I think that was a monumental fuckup.
True, and she never said anything else after that...
Ok.. But that's not what we are talking about is it? You said the statement 'and promptly proclaims she can't name a single policy decision she would have made differently than Biden.' was "Literally not true". But it literally is.
I don't have the time nor the want to unpack the rest of this clusterfuck campaign.
Now you're flat out lying and being insulting about it. Blocked.
She got handed a losing Biden campaign that was on fire, and thought the smart move was to double down on his policies that were already losing him the election, and then to throw in some Republican talking points. It was very obviously a losing strategy no matter how little time she had. The Democrats have been relying on "not Republicans" to carry them to victory for so long they seem to have forgotten why people vote for them over the Republicans.
Everything is "very obvious ” with 20/20 hindsight.
This stuff was all talked about prior to the election.
Everything is "hindsight" if you scream that the people saying it are Russian bots so you can ignore it until it's too late.
left leaning republicans arent "big fish". They are bottom of the barrel dregs, and going after them has been tried repeatedly and it never works. And she knew she was losing the left the whole time she pivoted to the right. She can read the polls same as we can.