From the Guardian article everything she said was true. The 3 month campaign was strong and robust and the election loss doesn’t change or diminish that. A in-depth postmortem doesn’t change that. Some people like to blame.
Oh fuck these people. There was no way to reach the brainwashed cult. The media was complicit. They were fighting an uphill battle and they did a brilliant job.
At least she showed and did something. This is not in her, it is on the crazy and the lazy voters. The Democrats ran in a race they thought was for the USA. It was just to ordain another rich bastard’s take over.
Fuck off. A literal rapist, felon and pedophile won the popular vote, carried on a wave of enthusiastic ignorance, violent grievance, unashamed bigotry and christofascist insanity - and you blame normal people running a normal campaign, demonstrating basic dignity?
In Harris's defense, she probably doesn't want to go on the record and state the hard truth that her campaign overestimated the intelligence and/or moral character of so many Americans.
Not to the people who voted Trump. They saw the price of eggs and Facebook / Xitter / Joe Rogan told them Trump would make eggs cheaper. Now here we are.
Of course. But them that chugged down the propaganda think it was sparkling spring water, and most of them will keep believing that no matter what horrors unfold in the next new years.
Let's hope someone comes up with a winning plan, cuz I sure can't see one.
I’m 100% okay with her response. She did everything we asked of her… in 107 days. She didn’t let us down. Democrats let us down. Independents let us down. The people let us down.
People wanted change. She offered status quo and “orange man bad”. She refused to differentiate herself from a candidate she literally replaced because of his unpopularity. She went fishing for votes from Republicans and took her own base for granted. She and her incompetent consultants let us down.
Agreed, but it’s mostly just preaching to the choir. To low information voters, “orange man bad” seemingly just backfires and makes him seem anti-establishment and adds to his narrative (“the powers-that-be are trying to take me down” etc…)
and she failed spectacularly what should have been a clean victory, all her campaign did was tank her numbers since her nomination, as always, the democrat old blood would rather kill the whole nation rather than learn any lesson
Or maybe....just maybe...107 days just simply wasn't enough time to run the campaign she needed, against someone who had essentially been campaigning for 4...no 8...no, the last 12 years?
give it a rest.... is this all youv'e got after sane-washing the MAGA candidate and crowd full stop???
Nobody listens to the "liberal" media anymore...
The problem with the Democratic Party is the Democrats. they’re weak and whiny and eat their own why would anybody want to be a part of a party like that? Too busy trying to play fair while we’re losing our country. It’s time for ‘When they go low, that’s when you kick high and hard’
There's a distinction to make here between whether her campaign decisions were reasonable AT THE TIME (I'd argue they were) and whether the strategies should be changed going forward (given the loss I think they should be)
I mean, what did they expect her to say? The post interview is just PR. Do the work to get better for the next elections and stop finger pointing and in-fighting.
If i ran a campaign saying a loss would mean ruin for specific groups, i would be in complete ruin at my incompetence and be so worried I couldn't sleep. I would not be saying I'm proud i gave it my all.....
Oh, we’re supposed to wring our hands and say our Mea Culpas for how long, exactly? We lost a close election. The candidate and campaign performed well. No doubt there are things we can learn from this loss, but let’s get on with it, not wallow in self-doubt and self-pity. Don’t mourn. Organize!
In hindsight it was a huge mistake by the Dems to put her up. Biden only won because of the Covid fallout. America is a majority conservative country, the Dems need to tweak their policies if they ever want to regain power. Dems need a leader, not a figurehead like Biden and Harris.
She ran an amazing campaign. Considering the low approval ratings of the Biden administration, this should have been a slam dunk for a Republican candidate. Yet in spite of having no time to ramp up a campaign, she came within a tiny margin of winning. Still, there are many lessons to learn.
Where are the guys who were all over the place demanding that Biden step aside. Apparently Kamala didn't suit them either. Why don't they share their plan with us?
I don't want to hear it. I want the person who thinks he or she can be all things to every single, individual registered Dem along w/all disaffected Repubs to volunteer to be the next Pres candidate. She wouldn't have been my pick, but she WASN'T A LYING SEX CRIME TRAITOR & that was good enuf 4 me.
I couldn’t be more proud of her. America let her slip away. And for me, I see nothing wrong w David Plouff’s take that Ds have to “dominate the middle” to win, as some do. And I liked the fire in his belly about illegal R super pacs coordinating directly w for other side too. We will fight on.
Trump won because too many people in the US are more eager to fight against "the woke mind virus" than to fight for their own rights and human rights in general.
Self flagellation is never helpful.
The data doesn't exist yet for detailed election analysis
And the next elections will be under different conditions requiring a different approach than whatever might have won this year.
Oh, and going by the difference between swing state vote totals and everywhere else - Harris's campaign was well run, and Trump's wasn't. Campaigns just aren't enough, if the overall media environment is neglected.
Simple truth is the politics is so intensely partisan in US there were hardly any undecided voters. So fact she handed Trumpet his arse on a plate on the one debate and massively out -campaigned him counted for precisely nothing
I how the Dems. These the same ones never on board all they do is co
Plain why Dems r soft. Harris ran a great campaign. When u r up against racism sexism. Along w lies mis information. Welp hard to fight against
Come on, Trump's win was wafer thin, & hints of fraud.
Harris/Walz did a good campaign but the hate/fear filled right wing propaganda won the day-just.
Dems, stop self blaming & unite in the Big Fight Back. Get the caps printed!
Americans cared for the economy and illegal immigration. But democrats talked about? Abortion and gender identities. The largest podcast in the world invited Kamala to an interview. What did she do? Ignore it. Their actual self congratulatory tone is normal for them, people living von a cloud.
I’m guessing these “Dems” are either Pundits or ex-Soviets. Either way, I’m not buying it. Harris ran a great campaign in the shortest time, and self flagellation is never the answer.
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Once again. Fuck off.
She would be President Elect if not for the Electoral College! I figure that’s pretty good in the short time she had
It was not a campaign promise,
Nor an economic observation.
It was a lie told to get people to vote against their best interests. #Propaganda.
Let's hope someone comes up with a winning plan, cuz I sure can't see one.
It's funny what people choose to ignore.
Nobody listens to the "liberal" media anymore...
Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
She was a bit too right-wing for me but at least she was sort of sane.
And also FCK those who are doing sham reporting, including Guardian.
Allow the party to choose a candidate
May have been a different story
Vote your best interests!!!
The data doesn't exist yet for detailed election analysis
And the next elections will be under different conditions requiring a different approach than whatever might have won this year.
Plain why Dems r soft. Harris ran a great campaign. When u r up against racism sexism. Along w lies mis information. Welp hard to fight against
Harris/Walz did a good campaign but the hate/fear filled right wing propaganda won the day-just.
Dems, stop self blaming & unite in the Big Fight Back. Get the caps printed!