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As Kamala Harris prepares to inflict on the American people a memoir and promotional tour late this September, to rehabilitate her reputation as a presidential candidate for another run, it’s worth reviewing the reasons why her 2024 campaign against Donald Trump was such an epic failure – and why she won’t be her party’s nominee in 2028.
Short Campaign Timeline
Harris entered the race late on July 21, 2024, leaving her with only 107 days to campaign. Her supporters would argue that this limited her ability to build a stronger campaign infrastructure, refine her messaging, and connect with voters – not that any of that would have mattered. By titling her book 107 Days, Kamala wants to hammer home the point that running the shortest campaign in modern presidential history hamstrung her; but in fact, voters recognized that she was simply incompetent, unqualified, and unlikeable.
Inability to Distance from Biden
Harris struggled to jettison the ballast of then-President Joe Biden, whose approval ratings were tanking around 40%. Remember the catastrophic moment on The View, when she couldn’t articulate anything she would have done differently from Biden? So much for selling herself as the “change candidate.”
Weak Economic Messaging
Harris failed to effectively address voter concerns about inflation and rising costs. Her inability to counter Trump’s strong polling advantage on economic issues was a significant misstep.
Underperformance with Key Demographics
Harris lost support among core Democratic constituencies, particularly Black and Latino voters. She won 86% of Black voters and 53% of Latino voters, compared to Biden’s 92% and 65% in 2020, respectively. Her campaign’s inability to address these group’s specific economic and social concerns led to reduced turnout or shifts toward Trump, especially among Latino men and in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Georgia.
As for locking in the female vote: despite being hyped as the first woman of color to be nominated for president, Harris’ vote share among women was basically the same as the share Biden got in 2020, except for a noticeable decline in support from Latinas. She also underperformed Biden among Asian American and Pacific Islander women (-4) and failed to do any better with black women than Biden did. Harris also underperformed Biden with younger voters (see below).
Overemphasis on Anti-Trump Messaging
Her campaign focused obsessively on attacking Trump’s character, legal issues, and past controversies, such as smearing him as a fascist. This strategy failed because voters already knew Trump but wanted to get a clearer picture of Harris’ vision and plans. Turns out she didn’t have any.
Strategic and Tactical Missteps
Kamala’s total lack of authenticity failed to energize undecided voters. And her campaign’s shockingly profligate spending (a problem the Freedom Center’s own Daniel Greenfield superbly covered here), such as funding celebrity concerts, was seen as wasteful and out-of-touch with voter priorities.
Failure to Address Controversial Issues
Her timid stance on kitchen-table issues like the economy, crime, and immigration, which dominated voter priorities, left voters questioning her conviction, as did her sidestepping of Republican attacks, such as those on her past support for trans rights.
Neglect of Grassroots Engagement
Unlike Biden’s 2020 campaign, which emphasized in-person voter outreach, Harris’s campaign leaned heavily on digital strategies and large-scale events. This failed to connect with older, rural, or less engaged voters, particularly in swing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Missteps in Voter Mobilization
Efforts to energize younger voters and progressive Democrats fell short, with Harris winning only 55% of voters under 30, compared to Biden’s 60% in 2020. Her campaign’s focus on issues like abortion rights did not resonate with voters as expected, particularly among men of color, and failed to inspire disillusioned younger demographics.
Running Mate
Remember during the campaign when the Democrats tried to draw male voters by marketing themselves as the party of “21st-century masculinity,” represented by such icons of manhood as Kamala’s husband Doug “First Gentleman” Emhoff and running mate “Tampon Tim” Walz? Epic fail. Harris performed six points worse among men than Biden did, but that falloff was significantly more pronounced among Latino men (-12) and black men (-7).
“Super Voters” Were Older, Less Racially Diverse, and Less Urban
The Catalist “What Happened” report found that Harris lost roughly two points of support among those who turned out in 2020, and new and infrequent voters failed to materialize for Democrats as they had in previous elections. For the first time in Catalist’s dataset, both infrequent and new voters — groups that tend to be younger and more diverse than the electorate at large — fell below 50% support for a Democrat presidential candidate.
Many Biden Voters Stayed Home, and New Voters Were the Least Democratic Ever
According to Catalist, 30 million 2020 voters didn’t cast a ballot in 2024. That 30 million was also a very Democratic-leaning group, giving Biden an estimated 55.7% of the vote in 2020. Harris was unable to make up for those lost votes with new voters.
To sum up, despite raising – and spending – $1.5 billion, Kamala struggled with strategic clarity, voter connection, and the albatross of an unpopular incumbent administration.
When it comes to selecting a presidential nominee, the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner thanks to their obsession with identity politics. In the last election, their strategists thought Kamala Harris might fill the bill, but now they know going with her again in 2028 means certain defeat. They can’t retreat from backing a woman of color and go back to a straight white male like Gavin Newsom or JB Pritzker without repudiating everything they stand for: anti-white racism, diversity/equity/inclusion, gender fluidity, etc. Their theoretically ideal candidate would be a queer black drag queen like RuPaul, but they know they need someone more mainstream, like Michelle Obama, who has insisted convincingly time and again that she has no interest in political office.
As things currently stand, this leaves the desperate Dems with no one but Pete Buttigieg – gay, but still a white male – and crazy-eyed radicals like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cory “Spartacus” Booker, or Gretchen Whitmer – weak options, but better than Kamala. 2028 is shaping up to be the beginning of an eight-year JD Vance White House.
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During the year of 2024, until November 5th elections results that greatly favored Donald Trump. Before that it could have been rightly said that A SPECTER of Communism is hunting America – the specter is Kamala Harris.
The United States has had two socialist Presidents, Bill Clinton then Barack Obama. Now during this year of 2024 there is the pseudo “president”, Joe Biden, sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, he is likewise a socialist. Now this is the first, meaning that if Kamala Harris actually does “win, by hook or by crook, the November 5th, 2024, general election, it would be the very first time that the United States as a Communist as President.
Therefore, it Kamala Harris did become the US President, she would be a Marxist President. The results would have been a disaster for America that the damage that she and her Red comrades would inflect on the United States will finish forever the United States as a great world power and will reduce the US to the level of a third world country.
If Kamala Harris did by some devious insidious sinister means had become next US President this will is the first, meaning that would have been the first time that America would have an actual Communist as the President of this nation.
That would have definitely been the very worst nightmare for all American patriots and also for the United States.
For even taking into account what a treacherous harmful fiend that Joe Biden is ,it still may be considered that the only semi-“good” thing about Joe Biden is that he still might not be as horrendously dangerous as Kamala Harris if she became the next US President.
For if Kamala Harris,” by hook or by crook,” had taken the place of Joe Biden in the Office of the United States President, things in America would not go from “Bad to worse” but entirely skip the word “worse” because things the US would then go from bad to the very worst possible. With Kamala Harris, sitting in the Office of the Presidency it would be a complete and total catastrophe for America.
To explain this in another way, as to compare Joe Biden with and to Vladimir Lenin and then compare Kamala Harris with and to Joseph Stalin.
Of course, Lenin was much more intelligent than Biden. Nevertheless, it’s not as terrible to have the feeble-minded socialist, Lenin type character, Biden sitting in the powerful Office of Presidency in Washington DC than have that rude, obnoxious abrasive callous Communist, Stalin type character, Kamala Harris sitting in the powerful Office of the Presidency in Washington DC.
She would have been total catastrophe and disaster , beyond remedy.
As Abraham Lincoln had ,so rightly m said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
My dream 2028 Dem presidential ticket is Booker/Warren. Or Warren/Booker.
Whoever leads the ticket makes no difference. The result will be the same.
January 20, 2029. JD. Welcome to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
LOLOLOLOLOL! Vance/Rubio would mop the floor with Booger/Fauxcahontis.
Her memoir won’t inflict much, if anything at all.
For that to happen, her book would have to actually sell.
If she’s dumb enough to stage a book signing, she’ll be humiliated by record-low attendance that’ll dwarf Hillary’s bad showings.
Sticking to the same tired campaigns as Biden the Blunder did. Nothing ever Changes under the Dem-O-Rats
The definition of insanity is doing the same failed thing over and over and expecting a different result.
next stop in her career progression should be one of those “only fans” accounts
Let’s cut to the truth. She is an alcoholic. We meet her type in bars all the time.
kumala doesn’t give a fvck! just look at her bank account balance.
Her 107 day campaign was just another Democrat money laundering scheme where they fleeced their idiotic and extremely naive constituents for almost 2 Billion and then had the audacity to continue to bilk them for more money leveraging empty and ridiculous promises.
dem dim dumb damn demonic dastardly disturbed decrepit dems fail to realize the intelligence of the American voting tax paying public.
The catastrophe of the installed by coup d’etat of the rigged and stolen 2020 election and the noodle head spewing world salad of the dope Cackling Kamala was too much for even the party line democrat voter to want the further destruction of the USA by the deep state controlled stooge puppet whore demoncRats
The landslide victory for President Trump included those once party line voting registered democrats who voted out of fear of what was happening for the last 4 years to continue and only get worse if Cackling Commie Kamalalala was elected! sine die
its only a matter of time before the u.s. collapses . its demise is inevitable . anyone who has read v d hanson knows it . for a one world govt. to arise it is a done deal . you cant have two world powers in place at one time . get your bible out and read up on it . if you need help , listen to dr. john barnett .
I call nonsense. Under the Republicans led by Trump the US grows stronger once again.
What? No mention of Gavin Newsome, maybe the King of the disingenuous idiots?
At least someone might ask him what happened to the 24 billion he lost.
I remember reading a biography of Kamala “Kamala’s Way’- the only American biography I could not read even one fourth of the pages because I got a clear impression that she was a charlatan, and a gold-digger-climber type! Her Vice-Presidency left me appalled and furious because she appeared so stupid with her silly comments, replies, and that schoolgirlish laugh1 one more book. this time, by her, is for sure a test of patience of readers, if any! The woman should be forgotten in public life, once for all!
I couldn’t resist:
A No Good, Very Bad, Terrible, Horribly Disastrous Belief
(Thank you, Judith Viorst, for the title inspiration)
We all have beliefs, and our beliefs are all different, many similar or seemingly identical in appearance, but basically all beliefs are different.
Belief is opinion, knowledge in our memory and exists only in the memory of the one holding the belief.
We have beliefs about religion, beliefs about family and friends, beliefs about government and politics, beliefs about business, beliefs about society, and beliefs about anything imaginable.
We use these beliefs in our decisions in our daily lives all because of the one no good, very bad, terrible, and horribly disastrous belief that most of us hold.
That one no good, very bad, terrible, and horribly disastrous belief is ‘the belief that our beliefs are truth’.
The belief that our beliefs are truth is what divides us and is what creates conflict between us, as our leaders intend, and is one of the stronger aspects of our conditioning.
We have a history of killing and maiming each other because of the difference in our beliefs, exasperated by the ignorance and immaturity of our leaders
Our leaders that wish to control us instill many of our beliefs into us and teach us that our beliefs are truth because they know that when we are divided, we expend our energy against each other and ignore what our leaders have done, are doing, and plan to do.
The best thing any of us can do to improve our lives, improve our environment, diminish the influence of our leaders in our lives, and dissolve the conflicts between us is to see the truth that there is no truth in our beliefs.
“The thought is not the thing” Jiddu Krishnamurti.
JamesSarafin.Substack.com
There is no such thing as YOUR TRUTH. You can have YOUR OPINION, you can have YOUR FEELINGS but the truth has nothing to do with either.