The Harris-Walz Campaign team’s recent appearance on ‘Pod Save America’ shows how operatives who have spent their entire careers cycling through campaigns, corporate boardrooms, and consulting firms produced a campaign that failed to inspire or connect with voters.

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For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9·
      13 days ago

      Thanks.

      This bit sounds infuriating, even just reading it:

      Spanish-language ads and even a dedicated WhatsApp group, it was of little use

      So you will never be able to buy a house, you are starting to skip lunch to save money, the government is boasting about how great everything is, and they wouldn’t change anything at all, everything is fucking great, at least the Cheneys said so, the opposition wants to deport you to some country you probably only heard about in high school geography.

      And in the campaign, in exchange for your vote, you get a… drumroll… dedicated WhatsApp group! And if that doesn’t motivate you to go vote, you’re sexist and racist, and you are the reason Harris lost.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        It’s just a constant shooting in the foot for Harris and I was just going “Jesus Christ, they can’t blame third party voters this time, will they blame Progressives or BIPOC if we lose?”

        Turns out, both.

    • btaf45@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      the high cost of living, housing and food was the factor that most influenced their vote.

      So the high cost of living caused them to vote for Trump’s inflationary National Sales Tax and inflationary gigantic tax cuts for billionaires?

      • Crismus@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 days ago

        They didn’t vote for Trump, they didn’t vote for Harris. Trump didn’t gain the voters, Harris lost millions of voters.

        Democrats weren’t going to vote for the Candidate who had no primary, was decided upon race/sexist promotion, and was unable to show definitive reasons why she would be ifferent than Biden.

        Biden didn’t win the last primary because of his personal votes, he won because all of the other candidates gave him their Primary votes after Super Tuesday to stop Bernie from being the nominee again.

        The DNC was not supported this time because the Democrat voters were against the coronation of Kamala, but did vote down-ballot the Democrats. Voting wasn’t a zero-sum choice, many people like me, didn’t vote for a president because the DNC was being fascist about the candidate.

        The DNC is no longer the party of the worker, it’s the party of the bosses and bankers, with the Hollywood shills paid to support their Candidate. The people aren’t owed their votes, the same way companies aren’t owed a purchase when they make a product that customers don’t want. We can’t have a marketplace of ideas if the DNC blocks all other ideas.