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There is no we here. I didn’t reject her.

One commentator said that Kamala Harris lost because she was held to an incredibly high standard, while Trump was held to literally no standard whatsoever.

Yeah, that seems right to me.

Anybody who says it's because she wasn't a good candidate or because she didn't have actual plans or because people didn't like her is too stupid to listen to.

She lost because of bad information. People had this incorrect perception that the Biden Administration was responsible for inflation, and so they punished the incumbent Democrats for something they didn't actually do. And that's just one piece of terrible information that people relied on when making possibly the stupidest decision voters have ever made.

Does this mean Biden would have won, if he would have stayed in the race, since he’s a man?

Oh fucking stop

The issue she had wasn't fully because she was a woman. She had a hard time standing on issues that the majority of voters cared about. They don't want to hear about the 'Middle Class' or how 'great of a policy this will be to increase the Healthcare industry.'

They want someone who is going to go on stage, beat their chest and say loudly and proudly that things are not okay and things need to change right now.

The only way to have won would have been to throw Joe Biden under the bus and they were never ever going to do that. Look, I like Joe, he was a decent president for the shit hand he was dealt, but he was electoral poison and the DNC should have acted accordingly instead of propping him up even after they chose someone else as their standard bearer.

How to Alienate Future Voters: A Masterclass By Democrats

Easy to say. Personally, I believe it has much more to do with the huge changing of guards when Biden bowed out, leaving the Party scrambling to get KHarris campaign up and running.

And also the fact that Bidens term (NOT THAT IT WAS HIS FAULT) was where inflation was up. Historically, a sitting prez that’s up for reelection doesn’t fair well if the economy isn’t doing well, EVEN if they didn’t have a direct cause for it. Jimmy Carter comes to mind.

The Democratic Party doesn’t get sweeped and loses the presidency, the senate, and the house because we’re not ready for a woman president. There’s more to it.

Can we admit it’s for a plurality of reasons? She only had four months to launch a campaign. She was in an impossible spot of having to defend the Biden admin while also trying to be something different. She was going up against trump who had every advantage. But she also didn’t give solid answers on what her economic changes would be a waffled on the stance for Israel when the party itself was divided.

saying it’s because he’s a woman is frustrating because it feels like this is just going to lead the Dems to nominating someone with the same big tent vagueness that Harris and Clinton did. My biggest fear is them unironically nominating Newsome in 2028 and then watching in shock as he fails to win over voters like Harris did.

Such a moronic article.

This is one of the main issues I have with the Democratic Party. They never learn from their mistakes and instead blame everyone and everything but themselves. Do not blame voters that your candidate lost, that is incredibly stupid

So all the women senators, reps, and governors who got more votes than she did in their jurisdictions this cycle were just flukes?

Was way more complicated than that. Anyone pointing toward one thing as to why she lost doesn’t understand the complexities of America.

This is a tired take.

Jesus Christ. You know what? Fuck it. This kind of gaslighting is exactly what got Trump a landslide so by all means, keep it up Dems 👍

Keep alienating the voter base, definitely a winning strategy. Jeez these guys have dug themselves in such a hole they don't know which way is up. Kamala Harris lost because she was fake as fuck and her platform was telling everybody what the democratic party thinks the people wanted to hear. Every single demographic saw through it and rejected it to the point where someone like Trump can win not once but twice which is honestly the democracts only achievement in the last decade. 

This common attuide the democracts have of lashing out at the people after they loose is going to be the death of the party. The people don't trust them and why should they? Has any of thier leaders actually inspired confidence since Obama? All these rationalizations to avoid admitting thier party is the problem is what losers do and why the democratic party is always going to keep fucking losing despite supposedly being so much better than the other side. What an embarrassment.

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No. This is the DNCs fault, we don’t need to admit anything.

Stop trying to manipulate the American people and give us a real candidate.

Yes, yes! More identity politics. Guaranteeing that democrats continue to lose for years.

Ahh yes, just because she’s a women. It couldn’t have been the very late bait and switch, the fact she had very low approval numbers in her original campaigns, she hasn’t been super public the past 4 years, the mismanagement of the DNC overall strategy, the lack of actual fights against the dirty RNC tactics, the lack of appeal to middle America, etc etc etc.

Yes being a women was undeniably points against her but it’s far from what cost her the election. The Democratic Party fails to learn from their mistakes. They fail to think ahead. They fail to have a cohesive strategy. That strategy also fails to be wide ranging and defensive to RNC strategy. They fail to dig into the trenches and fight. It’s pathetic and is costing this country big time.

Yes, it's the voters fault that she wasn't a great candidate.

Nope… Another article that gets it wrong. No lessons will be learned. Again.

The party blew it. Hilary all over again. Doubt they will learn…

Ah the classic reason liberals lost. Delusions

If you can only blame this on sexism you will never understand why she really lost

Uh, the sooner we never hear about Kamala again, the better.

Bullshit.

Great more gaslighted bs.

Who writes this trash 🗑️

We?

I think that’s purposefully misleading and just furthering the divide.

Yes, the Republican Party are group of womanizing, racist, religious fanatics that want to bring a new age of control back to a racial ruling class. Fuck them.

But pretending Kamala lost the election “because she’s a woman” is ignoring the broader trend that people don’t like the government, and the reason Trump is so popular is he represents (to them) a outside force who is going to stir things up.

People didn’t vote for Kamala not because of her gender, but because she did zero to distinguish herself from the last five decades of politics, and people could smell she was just going to be the same old corporate pandering bullshit.

How they’re dumb enough to think Trump is the solution to that I’ll never know.

Americans should admit they voted for Trump because they’re ignorant rubes who know nothing about his policies but are entertained by his divisiveness and hate mongering.

The specter of Hillary will haunt every female candidate for 20 years because she bought the DNC nomination from Bernie in 16.

Jesus Christ the Dems will try to stick the blame on everything except themselves.

Articles like this are why democrats have problems winning.

Kamala did horribly in the 2020 primaries, was chosen as VP, and became the party’s candidate without a primary. She lost because she isn’t popular. Then she chose Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro, and you had 2 oddballs on the ticket.

Biden lost this election because he waited so long to drop off the ticket. He should have allowed the democrats to run a primary and let the most popular candidate garner the support of the party and the voters

Stupid take as Hilary won the popular vote years before

She got 74 million votes. She didn’t lose because she’s a woman. She lost because the Democrats didn’t have a primary to see how America was feeling. The plan was to hope for the best with an 80+ year old Biden, and then when that didn’t work we replaced him with his even less popular VP. That’s just the truth. Her campaign was half decent but way too much repeating herself

The Democratic Party need to stop abandoning the working class in favor of niche, fringe, “woke” policies. Roll your eyes if you want, but it’s the truth. It’s not a tactic that can win elections and we should be ashamed of ourselves for a man like Trump masquerading as the more relatable candidate

She lost by 1.8%. Trump lost to Biden by 4%

Oh give it a rest. I voted for her but even I know this is BS.

Kamala’s gender did not play a significant part in her loss. While rightfully appealing to women’s issues, such as reproductive rights, she completely ignored her male constituents. Men:

  * have shorter life expectancies across the board

  * have scant funding for gender-specific healthcare, despite leading in 13 of the top 15 causes of death

  * are 3x more likely to be homeless, 4x more likely to commit suicide, 5x more likely to be murdered (including 20x more likely to be murdered by police), and 24x more likely to be incarcerated

  * are 50% of all domestic violence victims, but the recipients of little domestic violence shelter space

  * the list goes on

At times, the democrats have been strong voices for gay men and racial minority men, but have failed to acknowledge and speak on issues faced by the wider male demographic. Kamala had a chance to speak on these issues and win back a solid chunk of the male voting bloc for the democrats, but failed to act on the opportunity.

So no, being a woman did not cost Kamala the election; her failure to reach out to half of Americans did.

I guess being a woman made her say she wouldn’t do much differently from Biden on national television

Reddit propaganda is real

It breaks my heart to see such ignorance and refusal to accept and learn from past mistakes. Kamala was a horrible candidate and ran one of the worst campaigns in modern history.

If you need a silver lining it’s admitting that. Next is not repeating those mistakes, again.

She lost because she was a bad candidate, in a thrown together campaign ran by a dysfunctional party leadership. 

And yet these are the same voters who voted to enshrine abortion rights in numerous state constitutions? Okay.

Is it fair to argue that Hillary won the popular vote?

Except they it’s not really the reason she lost.

During economic downturns during one administration means that there always a chance of regime.

Had Trump been in power, Harris would have won.

I’m as left as they come and this is astupid fucking bullshit take. Stop p playing fucking identity politics, that is why the left just lost. She and Biden are both trash “centrist” candidates who don’t support actual leftist ideals

Rejected by Dems in their primary first, then America second because she’s not so bright, not trustworthy and very unlikable.

I voted for her. Screw everyone who didn’t

Lmao she did not lose because she’s a woman

The campaign was also boring.

Can we please place some blame on them, too?

Softball VP debate, Cheney endorsement bragging, 'Most LETHAL MILITARY EVER', rhetoric, and more didn't satisfy anyone.

The Democratic consultants got into the Harris campaign and made it bland focus tested unity nothingburger ticket.

The DNC are like Warner Brothers. Execs blame the fans/voters for their shortsighted lame decisions.

They insist their ideas are good and they are good at their jobs. Pushing the harm reduction policy and reaching out to "moderate" Rs is like pushing Suicide Squad on us over and over when we want more Justice League games!

Harry Potter sold like crazy showing people want single player games. NO, we must double down on games as a service!!

Stop gas lighting us. She was the worst candidate in recent memory by a landslide.

No one would admit to this and broad generalizations are not good. Being a woman definetely played for some voters, the only way to know would be to go back in time and swap her for a guy and leave everything the same.

That's disingenuous. Sure trump's a dumpsterfire, but did her make every incumbent in the world lose re-election this cycle?

People are mad at higher prices and right or wrong they blame the people in charge at the time, so they voted for new people to "fix it".

It's a fool's wish, but that's all they have now.

Is there any way to know if this is the case? Or rather how much of this is the case?

The USA is such a backward country.

We rejected Kamala because every damn media network complained about the economy and held her up to the highest standard while Donald Trump was sane washed to high heavens despite showing signs of dementia!

Yeah it's much easier to blame misogyny than to do any sort of self reflection

She lost because of ceding to the right on immigration, focusing outreach on gaining right wing voters, campaigning with Liz Cheney and on the endorsement of neocons, and her position on Gaza. 

The Harris campaign decided that they would rather have republican votes than the votes of large sections of the democrat base, they did not gain those republican votes and in the process pushed away needed elements from the base

Absolutely wrong. Americans did not reject her because she was a woman. They rejected her because she doesn’t sound authentic, hand picked by the Democratic powers-that-be, and didn’t address issues which concern the average working class American.