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Pretty obvious to anyone who observed it:
Biden held on too long making it impossible to run a proper primary.
Harris wasn't allowed to differentiate herself from Biden.
Time of Death: October 8th, 2024:
https://youtube.com/shorts/SJRk5PV588Q
And having no primaries turned off a lot of people. It’s like he died and she was sworn into office, except he didn’t actually die and she never took office.
Yup, and it takes 6 to 8 months to organize a primary, 100 days to the election wasn't enough time.
That’s fair, but it’s Biden’s fault we didn’t have that time. After being sworn in, he said he wouldn’t run for re-election, then he broke that promise in a display of horrible judgment.
But no matter how we got a candidate with no primary, it still turned off a lot of people to just have her dropped on us.
I felt like she had so much traction in the beginning, and with Walz coming in on board and really hitting the MAGA in the stomach with their comebacks.
But then suddenly they just stopped, and MAGA was able to reposition and gain the upper hand for the remainder of the season.
So yeah, shit themselves in the foot a few months before the end. Such a shame, I think they would’ve ok.
I distinctly remember when they told Walz to stop calling out how weird the Elon/Vance/Trump crew all were. It was working and I couldn't understand why stop. Some wormtongue consultant or PAC? It was baffling
Many people point to the influence that Uber exec and Kamala-brother-in-law Tony West had on the campaign.
His pro-corporate policies helped Kamala raise a billion dollars, but accepting that corporate money is a deal with the devil: it shifted her policy proposals and rhetoric significantly to the right.
And all the consultants from UK labour party.
Yeah, I don't know if it's just the same Democrat consultants every presidential election, but the last three elections they've always, always reverted to, "The election is three months away but you've already won, so for the love of god don't do anything inspiring or unexpected, and just start focusing on getting Republican votes."
Don't forget cozying up to Republicans. I think they took the campaign to the right because of some crazy idea that they needed to try for getting Republican votes. They stopped punching maga in the nose out of a misguided idea that they might steal some R votes from Trump.
She was just inept. Remember her talking about how much she liked her handgun? She should have used Hapiness Is A Warm Gun as a campaign tune.
It's gotta be either this or evidence that the base is further left than they thought and moderating to the right was a dogshit strategy. Nothing else seems like it's threatening enough to the establishment to warrant burying the report. Though if I was gonna bet, I'd be putting it on support for Israel.
3rd option would be evidence of election fraud by GOP but they are afraid DOJ will go after them.
LMAO if that's it, we're even more fucked than I thought.
We are actually very fucked unless Americans woke up.
https://youtu.be/XaqKHHbSOEc
This is take from an American historian and she also mentions that US has this happen 2 times already and people woke up and stopped it. Let's hope this time it won't be different.
Anyone still describing support under Dems as "unwaivering" compared to Trump deepthroating Netanyahu, posting Gaza riviera AI slop, and being puppeted into attacking Iran needs to take their pills. Not to mention, Trump likely caused Oct.7 in the first place with his dogshit handling of the middle east during his first term.
Progressives got scammed by the right & foreign states into not voting for Kamala because of Gaza. Which ironically, made them tools for Israel's interests. Braindead clowns.
You are giving people way too much credit here. Your average voter for either side isn't thinking this hard.
Hence "beginning."
Some of us draw a harder line: as long as Israel is genocidal, no support. Sanctions instead. So where's a party that actually runs on that?
I don't understand this one. Both sides seem to support this?
Trump ran explicitly on ending the “war”. A lot of people knew it was bullshit but some people held out hope and voted for him.
Except he was always vaguely hinting that by end the war he meant give Isreal everything they wanted therefore "ending" the war. Same with Russia and Ukraine.
True, but vague hinting doesn't tend to find its way to the headlines and newscast sound bytes that are the extent of information that an abysmally large portion of persuadable voters receive and base their vote on.
That's a BIG part of why Trump has ever been the least bit successful in spite of being an obvious fraud to anyone paying even slightly close attention.
haha you wish, it was just traitors like yourself that used it as an excuse to allow trump into power
What would be the consequences if she went off-piste?
Abandonment by the Biden camp, who were really the only people supporting her.
Her going the opposite as soon as it showed up well in the polls also didn't help
There were other potential donors who sat it out because she was running as Biden 2.0.
Yup, but they had less money than the Biden machine.
Harris 'wasn't allowed'? Fuck that, you're the candidate now. What would they have done, unannounced you? She doesn't have the ovaries to take a strong stand.
She would have lost the financial backing of the Biden camp:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/
All that financial backing didn't help her win. She would rather lose the election than lose a source of money.
She also refused any broadcast interviews of substance to make her case.
I still say if Biden has stepped down at year 2 and let Harris be president for 2 years she would have won very effectively. I'll never understand why that didn't happen. Hell he could have just said he was sick with cancer and stepped down for to health problems
I was so mad when he ran again. I had a distinct memory of him running as a "transition" president in 2019 - which my fool ass took to mean one term
Totally agree I remember him saying he would not run again