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Democrats Begged Team Kamala Harris Not to Campaign With Liz Cheney (www.rollingstone.com)

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It's literally 2016 but worse somehow.

One source close to the Harris campaign tells Rolling Stone they reached out to several staffers in and around the campaign to voice concerns about the candidate embracing Dick and Liz Cheney.

“People don’t want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says the source, speaking about Dick Cheney. They say a Harris staffer responded that it was not the staff’s role to challenge the campaign’s decisions.

A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney — and making the campaign’s closing argument about how many Republicans were supporting Harris — was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020. The strategist says they also attempted to have big donors and battleground state party chairs convey the same argument to the Harris campaign.

Another Democratic operative close to Harrisworld says they sent memos and data to Harris campaign staffers underscoring how, among other things, Republican voters, believe it or not, vote Republican — and that the data over the past year screamed that Democrats instead needed to reassure and energize the liberal base and Dem-leaning working class in battleground states. “We were told, basically, to get lost, no thank you,” says the operative.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree, it was a colossal mistake for Harris to try and win over GOPers. But Harris’s policies remained those I listed.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

God I am so tired of the post-mortems already

lol it was literally not even a week ago

This country simply wanted a rapist

lmao yup. That's the issue that motivated voters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Enough were fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the real answer shines through when you step outside of US politics. The global recession had people in every country questioning the incumbent party. It doesn't matter if it was left or right, conservative or liberal, whoever was in office was being blamed - because the public in general has no idea how the world works and has the collective memory of a goldfish. The US is performing better than most countries [1][2][3][4][5] in regards to the impact covid-19 had on the world, but Americans are too uneducated to realize they had it good, as the road to recovery is never easy.

With the public angry at the incumbent government (globally, not just in the US), the Trump/Putin hate machine decided to to stoke fear, uncertainty and doubt in Americans. This clearly worked as people's views on the nations economy have been trending down [6], so now we're left to deal with the Magagenda, which all seem to align with everything Putin ever hoped for.

You would think people would learn that republicans tend to wreck the economy just for democrats to fix it, and republicans to shit all over any progress that's been made again, but just like dogs aren't smart enough to learn that a snake bite's venomous bite could kill them an hour later, Americans can't seem to grasp the concept of economic momentum and that changes made in one term may not be immediately fixed - especially if the previous guy smeared his shit all over the bathroom walls before he left. It's understandable it will take some time to clean up.

Anyways, Trump took advantage of these economic hard times by stoking fear and hatred with claims that the incumbent party is to blame, that it's all corrupt, and somehow immigrants and trans people are to blame.

In summary, we've got a known rapist/conman/cheater with a history of rape, conning, and cheating and we're supposed to believe he won fair and square? I don't buy it.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68203820

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-us-economic-recovery-in-international-context-2023

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-recovery-from-covid-19-in-international-comparison/

[4] https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-us-economy-in-global-context

[5] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/despite-global-inflation-the-u-s-economic-recovery-is-among-the-strongest-of-g-7-nations/

[6] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/05/23/views-of-the-nations-economy-may-2024/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This country simply wanted a rapist, a criminal, they wanted a man who praises dictators

Voter participation was around 50% and some 12 million fewer people came out to vote this election. Both parties lost millions of voters, but Democrats lost more because they sold out to the donor class.

Americans don't like Trump, they have just lost faith in our broken two party system.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or, an awful lot of Americans are angry, they see the world passing them by and they see a line of politicians that have all promised to do something and done nothing. So they are angry. They are pissed off at the establishment, at the status quo.
Donald Trump may be a liar and an asshole but he is definitely not establishment and definitely not status quo.
So they vote for him, hoping that maybe he will actually do a little bit of what he promises if only because when he speaks it doesn't sound like a PR department is talking.

If Democrats want to win, they need a real message. Obama had a real message. Hope, change, yes we can. That was a real message. And he was, by and large, an excellent president. I don't regret my vote for him. But he made one big mistake. He ran on a platform of radical reform, and then delivered only moderate reform. Still a very successful president.

And who does the DNC put forward after him? Hillary. About as radical as soggy toast. And they shunt Bernie to the side, the one who actually could have won. Let's not forget that before this election started and Biden dropped out, Harris was polling in the single digits among Democrats.

If you want to win elections, you need a stronger message than 'I'm not Trump'. THAT is why Kamala lost. She did not have that strong message. To say otherwise is to deny reality and ensure that history repeats itself.

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