Harris only received five percent of Republican votes — less than the six percent Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the seven percent won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. While Harris won independents and moderates, she did so by smaller margins than Biden did in 2020.

Meanwhile, Harris lost households earning under $100,000, while Democratic turnout collapsed. Votes are still being counted, but Harris is on pace to underperform Biden’s 2020 totals by millions of votes.

  • @ifGoingToCrashDont
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    Dude, she had like 100 days to put together a campaign. She had to make a gamble and trust that the 2020 Dem voters were already in her corner so she could go after some big fish with the little time she had.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 month ago

      Dude, lets be real. The only reason the DNC pushed Biden out of the way was because polling numbers said the incumbent advantage (and his policies) weren’t going to be enough to win it for him. So Kamala comes out of the gate with a boost (because she’s not Joe) and promptly proclaims she can’t name a single policy decision she would have made differently than Biden. That’s not winning undecided voters from either side.

      • @[email protected]
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        and promptly proclaims she can’t name a single policy decision she would have made differently than Biden.

        Literally not true. Were you just not paying attention?

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          Shortly after becoming candidate, she was asked in an interview if she could think of anything she would have done different than Biden. She replied:

          “There is not a thing that comes to mind… and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done,”

          I voted for Harris but I think that was a monumental fuckup.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

              Ok… But that’s not what we are talking about is it? You said the statement ‘and promptly proclaims she can’t name a single policy decision she would have made differently than Biden.’ was “Literally not true”. But it literally is.

              I don’t have the time nor the want to unpack the rest of this clusterfuck campaign.

        • @kreskin
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          11 month ago

          Literally not true. Were you just not paying attention?

          Now you’re flat out lying and being insulting about it. Blocked.

    • @orclev
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      She got handed a losing Biden campaign that was on fire, and thought the smart move was to double down on his policies that were already losing him the election, and then to throw in some Republican talking points. It was very obviously a losing strategy no matter how little time she had. The Democrats have been relying on “not Republicans” to carry them to victory for so long they seem to have forgotten why people vote for them over the Republicans.

      • @VubDapple
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        -41 month ago

        Everything is "very obvious ” with 20/20 hindsight.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          Everything is “hindsight” if you scream that the people saying it are Russian bots so you can ignore it until it’s too late.

    • @kreskin
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      left leaning republicans arent “big fish”. They are bottom of the barrel dregs, and going after them has been tried repeatedly and it never works. And she knew she was losing the left the whole time she pivoted to the right. She can read the polls same as we can.