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According to Fareed Zakaria, she lost for three reasons:
- Democrat focus on identity has become deeply illiberal; with cancel culture, questioning freedom of speech, etc.
- The liberals have clearly weaponized the courts against Trump.
- Harris should have slammed the Southern border shut four years ago.
Bernie Sanders says it’s because the Left abandoned the working class.
Karl Rove mentioned the four gaps that worked for Trump; including men vs. women, overperformed with all minorities, overperformed with non-college-graduates, overperformed with everyone under $100,000 in income.
Rove thinks it’s the economy and extreme cultural positions.
Nominating a Catholic (JD Vance) caused a huge jump in Catholic preference, particularly in the swing states. Personally, I think it was that Kamala is anti-Catholic, a traditional Baptist, and she has a long history of antagonistic behavior towards Catholics.
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https://www.notus.org/harris-2024/kamala-harris-end-campaign
She also had the “Jesus is Lord” moment, where she said they were at the wrong rally, which seemed to alienate evangelicals.
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I found this article and a separate round-table commentary on why Harris won the vice presidency in the first place, despite underperforming versus all the other candidates in 2019 and 2020.
What strikes me as most interesting is that her skills as a prosecutor are directly the opposite of the skills that make you a great politician. Take the cross-examination of Brett Kavanaugh. She’s completely prepared, she knows every question, she knows the answer to every question and she pressed him every time. That’s what a prosecutor does. What a prosecutor doesn’t do is extemporize. They don’t think on their feet, because it’s dangerous, they never ask a question they don’t know the answer to, because it’s dangerous, and they never answer questions — not from judges, not from the opposition, not from the media…because it’s dangerous.
Basically, Harris was wholly unprepared to be a politician. She won as SF DA in part because she illegally outraised her competition, but was never called on it.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Harris-violated-S-F-campaign-finance-law-D-A-2554388.php
She also inflated her prosecutorial record:
The city’s public defender called her unethical because of a crime lab scandal:
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