Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Any honest accounting has to begin with the fact that the biggest burden on Harris’ candidacy was the fact that it began in July 2024, rather than April 2023 — a reality created by Biden’s insistence on running for reelection after he aggressively signaled he would serve a single term in office. Only one halfway credible challenger emerged to raise questions about this decision, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who was recruited into the race by Steve Schmidt. “What Joe Biden did was the greatest act of egotism in American history,” Schmidt says. “And it was supported and sustained by a relatively small handful of powerful people.” (Schmidt places Biden strategists Anita Dunn and Steve Ricchetti, as well as First Lady Jill Biden and the Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at the top of that list.)

Multiple who spoke with Rolling Stone agreed that while Harris’ biggest handicap was the position Biden put her in, her first failure as a candidate was her inability or refusal to differentiate herself from the president. “If there only was a thing they could have done, it would have been to make a loud and clean break,” says one strategist who worked to elect Harris. (On Pod Save America, Cutter credited that choice to Harris herself: “She felt like she was part of the administration, so why should she look back… and cherry pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it?”)

Harris’ early candidacy, in that strategist’s view, was characterized by a particular and irreverent vibe that generated a lot of enthusiasm among the Democratic base. But that enthusiasm, in this person’s view, quickly dampened after a convention marred by a prominent fight over the war in Gaza and a pledge to ensure America had “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,” followed by weeks of aggressive overtures to woo Republican voters."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kamala-harris-what-went-wrong-1235183829/

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Dem Operatives Offer an Exhaustive Accounting of the Harris Campaign’s Faults

Democratic consultants, strategists, and staffers lay out what Kamala Harris’ campaign did wrong, as her senior leaders refuse to take accountability.

Rolling Stone
Dec 1, 2024 at 1:39pmWeb
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@remixtures I think it was the rampant cheating, more than anything else, but yes, Kamala could've also done better, to lose by exactly the same fake margin.
No-one GOPper has ever won all 7 of those states, and to win every one by a few thousand votes more than the check count margin is just improbable. And don't forget that the most traditionally accurate polling was also somehow 16 points out!
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@remixtures American voters want to hear the same message by any party or candidate: higher wages, lower prices, more affordable healthcare, more affordable housing and protect social security. These are all pragmatic kitchen table personal economic issues,ie, cost of living. You either campaign for these explicitly or at least lie about delivering them, which both parties do.