We don't need campaign insiders to tell us anything. We watched her do all the wrong things, just as any corporate democrat candidate would. It's not like anything was a secret. If she wanted workers' votes, all she had to do was actually push some decent policies.
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They lost because they were offering the same bs they always do. No amount of time would have saved them. Trump won because he said he would do things differently. Harris lost because she wasted time fighting the Trump icon instead of offering solutions for everyday people.
Hopefully this failure will help push forth a party for the people instead of the garbage us vs them that we always get from both major parties.
Trump won because americans are so incredibly stupid as a nation they think a felon who attempted coup to stay in power is better than a traditionally bad candidate.
Democrats thought they could get away with running a traditionally bad candidate.
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Its crazy, they spent all that money when all they had to say on live TV to win everyone over (if all you want is to win of course) by saying fuck Israel, no more arms, and fuck all of you being poor, we're going to fix that shit like we did a century ago. Thats all they had to do imo. The Steam from it would have reverberated through every nook and crany.
This is so fucking naive. Majority of Americans don't give a shit about the Palestinian people.
Most people care their tax dollars are being spent on genocide. Even if the sales make us money.
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They could have handled the Michigan problem in a lower key. Letting them speak at the convention and promising real investigations with paused shipments. That way they get the moral high ground for both sides without taking a side.
And as for the affordability crisis. All they had to do was say, we know we have more work to do, we successfully avoided a recession and more we must make sure we don't leave everyday Americans behind. Then go on to talk about trust busting, grocery prices, housing prices, car prices.
Instead they chose fear mongering and status quo. It was an out of touch campaign run by out of touch corporate elites.
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No way, instead let me bombard you with emails like a needy ex.
Is it too cynical to say that her billion dollar campaign was a money laundering operation?
A lot of this information is public because they had to file their campaign spend with the FEC. They spent a fuck ton buying ad spots on social media, TV, billboards, print, etc.
They gave a lot of money to their consultants and advertisers, all perfectly legal.
Cui bono?
To be fair, to buy a lot of ads, you typically have to give a lot of money to advertisers.
By god that seems like the dumbest possible choice given that the Democrats are routinely criticized for being elite and out of touch.
How about a giant, ever gazing, magical, orb displaying our leader's head with a command for the public? Surely that will make us seem down to earth and in touch with the common person.
How about a giant, ever gazing magical or displaying our leaders head with a command for the public?
At a rate of $1,000,000 per week, no less.
(A Harris source admits the campaign could have made her more available for podcasts if they had more time, saying, “If we had had a six-month runway instead of 107 days … does she do Martha Stewart’s podcast? Does she do something with Ina Garten?… There’s so much, so many things that you can do, but we just didn’t have time.”)
These people will never fucking learn. Martha Stewart and Ina Garten occupy a fraction of the podcast space, which has very quickly come to take up the same platform as late night TV did twenty years ago or radio did before that. Don't forget that Bill Clinton's media blitz making him look like a normal, likeable guy is attributed to his presidency.
I don't like Joe Rogan or listen to JRE but it's obvious that scorning the largest audience in the world is ridiculous. Bernie did it and the comments on YT are overwhelmingly supportive of him. To just write off that entire audience as a lost cause was campaign suicide, even before the whole "i would put a Republican in my cabinet, thank you Liz Cheney" stuff happened, especially as we keep seeing that this election was determined by poor, economically stunted and socially disaffected young men.
If they had 6 months, these examples would have given us way more things to point to on why Harris lost.
If she had time to run a proper campaign, then they would have had time to conduct a primary. If they would have had a primary, she wouldn’t have been campaigning.
The two examples are rich white women. Just still absolutely tone deaf
No, no, no, surely you don't get it: the Harris campaign didn't target affluent, suburban white women enough. With a 6-month extension, they could've surely carved out enough support to counter Trump's gains in literally every relevant demographic.
They just needed more cheneys.
"What would you do different from Biden?"
"Nothing in particular."
"... you wanna try that one again?"
"I would put a Republican in my cabinet"
How didn't that work???