No, Kamala Harris Staffers Did Not Run a “Flawless” Campaign
No, Kamala Harris Staffers Did Not Run a “Flawless” Campaign
Democratic strategists are still patting themselves on the back for a catastrophic defeat.
Well of course they didn't, they got their asses kicked. From what I saw they ran the Hillary Clinton 2.0 campaign.
"No primaries until you vote for the candidate on your plate"
I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.
No shit?
A flawless campaign would have won.
Not necessarily, you can do everything right and still lose.
That said, the reason she was initially lauded as running a great campaign was picking up Biden's campaign from a cold start and making it much closer than map coloring makes it appear. She definitely did make mistakes in there too though, so not flawless at all.
Frankly, Trump’s policies will have some very strong negative consequences if he follows through on them.
Trump plans to destroy the United States governmental system and become a king, with the power to kill his opponents and remove anyone's ability to ever challenge his hold on power without bringing down the full weight of a multi-trillion-dollar punitive system down upon themselves. Probably he will imprison or kill anyone who tries to disobey him. Also, he's explicitly allied himself with violent foreign adversaries who view us as an enemy that needs to be exterminated.
I would call that negative consequences. It's not guaranteed that he will succeed, but that's what he's planning, and he has some powerful allies who are going to try to help him with it.
If you use words like 'ask', 'cope', or 'spend' like a noun, I like it when you do it really early so I can move on.
Don't get me wrong: an average is just that. You be you.
How could they try to gaslight people who refused to compromise their ethics into believing that it's their fault without pretending to have run a flawless campaign?
All she had to say was:
"Israel had a right to defend itself, however after their indescriminate attacks on civillians in Gaza, not just the men, but also, the women and children, an act that clearly and undeniably violate internation laws, Israel no longer have the right to defend itself. I will immediately call on President Biden to suspend any and all military aid to Israel. Futhermore, sanctions will be imposed on Israel until they cease their indiscriminate killings."
Then actually make Biden do it. Kneecap him if he doesn't.
And for domestic policy:
"As president, I ensure every American has access to healthcare by calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make Medicare For All a reality in America."
There, campaign saved. Just keep up the public appearances, talk to people, and win the election.
But unfortunately, that's a different timeline. This timeline is fucked.
I think far too many people see the price of groceries, fall for the GOP line that it's Biden's fault (and that deporting all illegal immigrants will help) and think Trump will save the day.
Like, yeah, post-covid recovery has been hard. Mostly stagnant wages don't help. People feel that. Unfortunately it's harder to feel the fact that other countries are feeling the exact same things, often worse than we are, so they vote for some weird nostalgia for the days when things were better under Trump.
Sanders said it perfectly in his open letter after the election.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.
Democrats just didn't do enough to make people believe that their lives would change for the better from them. Continuing the status quo is not something they wanted to hear.
People are hurting, economically, and a lot of those people chose the person who is NOT in office, ie they voted against the incumbent who is telling them everything is fine and to stop whining.
It's as simple as Harris said things would continue the same way, and Trump promised change. With grocery prices as they are, people voted based on that.
I think you overestimate how much Americans care about Palestine or foreign affairs in the wake of post covid inflation.
I don't think its that "Americans Care", but its the fact that it fuels propaganda that strengthens the "Both Sides Same" narrative which causes democrats to stay home.
About 8 million [Arab] Americans cared enough to stay home, from voting.
See: Detroit, Dearborn, and several other Midwest cities with large [Arab] American citizens who stayed home, and depressed the vote there.
Very few votes would be lost by shutting off Israel. Most Americans do not care. But there were votes to be won by supporting Palestine.
, Israel no longer have the right to defend itself. I will immediately call on President Biden to suspend any and all military aid to Israel.
The 2nd thing may or may not have helped. The 1st thing would be an absolutely stupid thing to say that would have been a major win for Treason Trump.
“As president, I ensure every American has access to healthcare by calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make Medicare For All a reality in America.”
This would have been a good idea.
Some of the stuff that's come out has been metaphorically criminal in it's negligence.
Biden had internal polls showing Trump would take 400 Electoral votes after his disastrous debate. Then it took a month for him to hand the race over to Harris. Outsiders figured this was a managed hand over with Harris being prepped and staffers reconfiguring the campaign behind the scenes. It turns out that's not true. There was no prep, it was a complete cold start. The sheer hubris of that is insane. A responsible leader would have had a team working on that the second they saw that data.
Then her advisors, Biden's advisors, turned out to be a who's who of the corporate country club. Which is why the campaign seemed so at odds with itself. Walz was picked and then sidelined. Progressive issues were bandied about until suddenly Liz Cheney is on board and nothing will change, everything was fine the last 4 years. Again outsiders thought they must have internal polling that showed already high support among all likely voters who lean left, and they had to bring in Republicans to get enough voters in key areas. Again, the outsiders were wrong because who would do that if they weren't forced to?
People worth millions of dollars who stand to benefit from a Trump presidency. I'm not saying this was a designated hit, I'm saying they seemed like Mitt Romney Republicans because it was run by people comfortable with those economic and justice policies.
And I haven't touched Gaza. Well I guess I just did, but we were all there for that discussion so I'm not going back over it more than to mention it.
The DNC hasn't had a real primary since 2008. That's the real problem.
Hey, at least the incumbent didn’t roll over and withdraw from the race last second in 2012 🙄
If you think Harris lost badly, Biden would have set ratio records.
This loss is largely on Brandon for stroking his limp dick far, far too long.
Just because the person you want doesn’t win doesn’t invalidate the primaries.
That isn't what invalidated the primaries.
What primaries lol.
Aw jeez, can we get off the cheap 'primary' diversion? If Mr Trump dies of congestive heart failure on day 207 from an astounding number of big macs, you also don't get a primary to choose the next American president OR HIS VP.
It's hardly a diversion. As stupid a choice as Trump is, he was still viewed by voters as their pick. While the Republican party is held hostage to the populist Trump and his supporters, the DNC won't even let voters participate in the selection of candidates. Can you really say that Biden won a normal primary (coming from behind as other candidates strategically dropped out)? Would you say Harris was selected by voters at all? Did Clinton's bailing out of the DNC in 2016 not register with you?
I understand why voters haven't been that excited about the Democrats for over a decade.
No, the negligence goes that far back. You don't get what happened at that debate over night. They should have announced he wasn't running again in 2023 and allowed a proper primary.