I mean we cannot blame Kamala...she was the VP and Biden stepped down and she was thrust into it. What else was she was supposed to do. She claimed she was involved in major policy and then asked to criticize Biden and show she was going do to something different. She was never set up to win and was a hail mary when it was clear Biden sank them. I dont want her as president but I dont blame her for being put in that position... Also the Dems spent too much time catering to the far left and calling trump names. Social media elections are about selling and trump sold to the public about a country that was a disaster and he has all the solutions. Doesnt matter if he is lying, people dont care, they just want someone to say out loud what they are thinking and it drives the masses in droves. You got a stock market at all time highs yet people believe the economy sucked for example. People truly thought illegals are overrunning NYC and OHIO and eating cats and dogs. Does not matter what the truth is, people dont want the truth, they want someone to say they will solve your problem and someone else to blame for it.
Well the dems really pounded LGBTQ, abortion, immigration rather than find the middle ground the country was looking for. I heard from a lot of fly over state peeps (clearly anecdotal) that the dems spent too much time pushing social issues when the real issues affecting middle america were economic and financial - prices, jobs, illegal immigration. Trump said we are going to deport people here illegally Kamala said we need immigration reform and trump is racist Who do you think people will vote for where immigration is a main issue. trump said he is going to lower prices, bring back jobs and drill, more coal, get rid of EV mandates... kamala said she wants to raise taxes on the rich and help the middle class... Who do you think people are going to vote for when they care about the money in their pocket. Dems though abortion and trans rights needed to be hammered but how many interviews did I see on Fox news where voters in PA, MICH and OH were saying no men in woman's sports and they think Dems are baby killers. So the far left social issues made the dems push that a lot and it turned off a lot of voters. last statistic I saw less than 1% of people identified as trans but dems let that social issue push forward rather than take a stand most of the country felt strongly about. You think the 30 interior and blue wall states care about trans issues and giving migrants who cross illegally full health care? Notice how migrants became shit to dems when they were bussed to NYC haha. dems might not have had a progressive platform if you ask tony but they certainly let those social issue dominate when the rest of the country was fuck that shit and talk about the real issues. Dems were so tone deaf that I could tolerate trump's lies wya more than Kamala's rambling about the soul of America and beautiful dream for children...
Some fair points in there re dems. But Trump's message didn't land, either, he lost as many voters as he gained.
Hard to deal with people who drank the Kool aid on all of Trump's lies. Unfortunately, the economy does suck for some people ( and states ) yet at the same time it's wonderful for some. Trump term one exasperated the wealthy gap by design.
you cant focus on what voters he lost when he....won. He picked up voters in this race which mattered. Lot of overlooked groups went to the mirage in the desert offering water.
Yeah and it really is good for most since wage increases matched price increases but that means that people found it harder to save or match their gluttinous spending. Our problem is wages go up and spending always increases at exponential rates because we cannot control ourselves.
Furious Dem official brands Kamala Harris’ campaign a ‘$1 billion disaster’ in foul-mouthed tirade https://nypost.com/2024/11/10/us-ne...asts-harris-campaign-as-a-1-billion-disaster/ Lindy Li, who sits on the Democratic National Committee finance committee, raked Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign over the coals, branding it a “$1 billion disaster” and called for accountability after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Li at one point dropped an f-bomb during her television hit while venting that President Biden’s late-stage decision to drop out was a “f— you” to Democrat. She contended that she and others had been misled about Harris’ chances in the election. “The truth is this is just an end epic disaster, this is a $1 billion disaster,” Li bluntly told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends I have to be accountable to and explain what happened because I told them it was a margin-of-error race.” Campaign filings have indicated that the Harris-Walz campaign took in at least $1 billion, and when combined with other aligned groups, the total was well over $1.6 billion. Notably, there is still another filing due for the month of October. Politico reported that the campaign was $20 million in the hole after Nov. 5. In the run-up to Election Day, Harris had publicly cast herself as the “underdog” in the race and her campaign repeatedly warned that the contest would be a nail-bitter. Biden, 81, had dropped out of the race on July 21 amid a mutiny from Democrats sparked by his fumbling debate performance. He promptly endorsed Harris, 60, to become the standard bearer, who locked up the nomination in a matter of weeks by winning over party insiders. Back in July, Li had been defensive of Biden hailing him as a “class act and the consummate leader” and complaining on July 18 that “Biden is the MOST successful President of my lifetime.” She later said that she was “in shock” that Biden dropped out, but noted there was “uniformal relief” from donors he dropped out. On Saturday, Li ripped into the way in which Biden went down, suggesting that his rapid endorsement of Harris was an “f you” to his fellow Democrats. Fox News censored her accidentally dropping the f-bomb on air and Li later restrained herself from using it again. “I actually think President Biden, the whole endorsing her 30 minutes after he dropped out, I think that was a big, ‘F you’ to the party. ‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not like, deal with it,’” Li said. “Kind of like sticking it to the man.” Last week, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is widely believed to have played a key role in pushing out her fellow octogenarian Catholic Democrat, similarly panned the way Biden exited. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told “The Interview,“ a New York Times podcast. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.” Li groused that she was “misled” about Harris’ chances by top brass, including campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon. “I was promised… Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win,” she complained. “She even put videos out saying that Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks. I feel like a lot of us were misled.” O’Malley Dillon later sent out a memo to staffers reflecting on the loss. “You stared down unprecedented headwinds and obstacles that were largely out of our control. We knew this would be a margin of error race, and it was,” she wrote to the team. “The whole country moved to the right, but compared to the rest of the country, the battleground states saw the least amount of movement in his direction. It was closest in the places we competed.” Trump, 78, had scored an even more resounding victory on election night 2024 than he had in 2016, sweeping all seven battleground states and winning the largest quantity of popular votes for a Republican presidential hopeful in US history. Meanwhile, Democrats are mired in a blame game and widespread finger-pointing over their stunning loss. Trump is set to meet with Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday.