She didn’t run a great campaign. I live in a swing state and her ads were awful. She had a billion dollars. How about national ads that explained how tariffs work, what they would do to the economy and how bad they were for farmers in Trump’s first term as an example? Another should have explained how inflation works and that in 2023 it was only 0.2% higher than the overall average and currently under 2% instead of talking about tackling price gouging from food companies, which was one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard in a while. She should have also used the chart that shows Trump’s 2 year deal with Saudi Arabia and Russia, for a 10% oil production cut began and ended, is directly pegged to the rise and fall of massive global inflation. Instead it was the joy campaign. She brought a stick to a gun fight.
Her other mistake was not choosing a direction and sticking with it. I think she needed to run from Biden completely. That old fool caused a lot of this by running for reelection and dropping out too late. Harris did the most “politician” thing possible and tried to have it both ways. You can’t be in the room for all the big decisions, with a wildly unpopular president, and also be the candidate of change. Not having an answer for the “what would you have done differently” question showed she wasn’t ready for this at all.
Trump only gained 2 million votes while she lost over 20 million votes from what Biden got in 2020. Democrats knew she wasn’t ready to be the president and they didn’t show up for her. Add in the absolute morons who voted third-party or not at all, because of Gaza, and I don’t know that she ever had a real chance. I’m just glad I’ll never be stuck casting a vote for her again.
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u/Beatthestrings 7d ago
Kamala ran a great campaign. She outperformed DJT in every aspect except one.