I'll give credit where credit is due. There's a huge difference in illegal crossings now versus when Biden was president. In regards to why the democrats lost the presidential election, I'll refrain from writing a novel as I am not as talented writer as many of you on this board. Here's the simple truth.
1. Kamala Harris wasn't a white guy
2. Kamala Harris was a person of color
3. Kamala Harris was a woman
4. Kamala Harris didn't exude likeability
The LBGTQ issues played little part IMO
Comparing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Kamala Harris.
Hillary got more of the popular vote than Trump, but lost the election because of the way the Electoral College is set up.
So more than half of the electorate voted for a person who wasn’t a white guy In 2016. But since then, the electorate has become both more racist and more sexist?
The voters elected Barack Obama (a black guy)….twice. But since then, the electorate has gotten racist and won’t vote for a person of color?
Kamala Harris is a woman. Women have accounted for scads of elected officials at all levels except the President.
Kamala Harris didn’t exude likeability? That’s simply not true. She came across as highly likable. Uninformed. Not a lot of substance (which is why she washed out in her own Presidential campaign in 2020), but really telegenic and likeable. Unlike Hillary Clinton who comes across about as likeable as a rabid porcupine, but nevertheless got more than half the vote in 2020.
Kamala Harris lost in 2024 because she led a race to the left in 2020, got too far left for the Democratic Party in the summer of George Floyd (!), and was one of the first to exit the race. Then did nothing in the intervening 4 years to disavow those positions. When given a chance to backtrack, she declined.
The Democratic Party (as distinct from Kamala Harris) lost in 2024 because they turned a willfully blind eye to Biden’s mental decline, essentially saying to the public, “You gonna believe us or your own lying eyes?” and nominated a clearly addled Biden…..instead of Kamala Harris or anyone else.
To repeat: The Democratic Party didn’t nominate Harris. Twice….once in an open contest in 2020, and once again when it was clear that Biden’s mental capabilities weren’t up to the job, but they stuck with him anyway. Is the Democratic Party racist and sexist?
Only when Biden face-planted so badly that even the most strident Democratic leader could no longer deny that he was mentally unfit for office, did they move to abandon the idea that he could handle the job.
Then, rather than have a true race for the nomination, they coronated a candidate who, the last time out, was convincingly ousted from the field early on.
In fairness, they didn’t have much time. But that gets back to supporting Biden 2024 in the first place.
For a lot of reasons, mostly self-inflicted, the Democrats in general and Harris personally lost to the most beatable Republican since Herbert Hoover. None of those reasons had anything to do with Harris’s skin color or personal plumbing.
BTW — Asserting that more than half the electorate are racist woman-hating bigots isn’t exactly the recommended way to convert them to your side.
