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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
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I am not trying to be political or upset anybody of either side. I blame Joe Biden for this, before you judge or get upset or disagree with me--just wait. I believe this is particularly the reason she lost. She was left only from July to November to figure out her platform, determine a potential running mate, and come up with ideas.
Usually they start campaigning around the midterms leaving nearly 2 years. She only had 4-5 months to prepare. She had limited amount of time to prepare her political campaign, to figure out her agenda how to get her message out there to everybody. Wait for time for people to hear it. They were not sure of her policies, they thought she was just an extension of Joe Biden because she didn't have time.
This is just one factor. She did a very excellent job for the few months she had left. She could have done a better job if Joe Biden had not ran a second term.
Then it upset people that Democrats didn't hold an open primary. She would have still won most likely, but for the younger generation and others. It was a turn off, they said it was a form of tyranny. (Of course it wasn't. Even Republican party in 2020 cancelled primaries in some states)
Then you had states cleaning up the 'voting rolls' people didn't realize they were unregistered, and ran out of time to register again. In a lot of states, I don't believe you can register on the day you vote. I might be wrong though.
No she is rightfully to blame. Her platform was “Nothing will change” and “Israel has a right to defend itself”. If she would have not said those 2 things she would have won.
Well I'm pretty sure with a longer campaign he team would've figured out "I'll keep doing what Biden is doing" was a losing message and dropped it. I don't think there was any chance of them acknowledging the genocide in Gaza by Nov '24, because the general public hadn't come around on it by then.
I don't know if that would've changed the outcome.
Biden should've kept his promise to be transitional and let there be an honest to god Democratic primary.
She pushed a very popular and likable Tim Walz out of the way to put a fucking Cheney front and center. Cheney are historically evil people.
She refused to appear in unscripted events. People point to Trump's podcast appearances as the reason he won, but in my opinion it's closer to the truth to say that Kamala refusing to appear unless everything was closely controlled is what really cost her.
Some of that may also be that the secret service doesn't allow for to much non "closely controlled" environments. Not sure exactly how that works, but I assume you have to let them know where you are going to be in advance and they figure out who is going to be there and set perimeter and everything else, which if you are nervous I imagine you fall into a "I should prepare for this interview" having hours/possibly days to do so.
agreed. But I think it goes back much farther. Biden was never a good senator, always was soft on constitutional rights and civil liberties, and has always been a racist and a demagogue. He never should have been president in the first place. The fact that he was shows how far back the rot thats killing the dem party sprang from.
She didn't have too little time. She had too much time. She could have won if Biden had died a week before the election, and she had to take over last minute. The peak of her popularity was right when she got the candidacy. And it was all downhill from there. The more voters got to know her, the less they liked her. If she had had more time, it would have been much worse.
She was a deeply unlikable candidate that ran dead last in the primary she ran in. She was chosen by Biden as VP precisely because she was seen as unelectable and thus not a serious rival for Biden's position.