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Summary

Kamala Harris’s political skills have transformed a potentially disastrous 2024 presidential election into a competitive race.

Despite initial skepticism and a challenging campaign, Harris has improved her public image and closed the gap with Trump on key issues. Since Biden stepped aside in July and endorsed her, she has shifted from an unpopular vice president to a viable candidate, even matching Trump in polls on economic issues.

Her leadership has given Democrats a chance to prevent a Trump landslide and halt the rise of American authoritarianism.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

That article has not aged well.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

No it's not, liberals tried the age old tactic of getting minorities and the working class to vote for neoliberals that have devastated their well being for 50 years because the GOP is racist, and for some reason it didn't work this time.

Y'all took the wrong lesson from COVID and 2020. It wasn't that voters were going to continue to put up with Democrat's fealty to the right and corporate donors. It was that COVID was so unprecedented that they held their nose one last time. ,

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago

Wow! What a great campaign /s

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 31 points 21 hours ago

/r/agedLikeMilk

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 16 hours ago

LMAO. Cope harder. The fact that this race was close at all just shows how much of a joke they are.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 32 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I would have said this aged like milk after Trump's landslide-even-the-popular-vote victory, but even milk doesn't sour this fast. This aged like unrefrigerated shellfish.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago

Aged like a wet fart.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago

Aged like a sushi delivery order where they sandwich the sushi container between my edamame boxes.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Here’s a list of progressive policies both foreign and domestic that supermajorities of both democrats and republicans support.

What’s that? You’d rather support genocide and brag about being endorsed by Dick Cheney?

You do you, I guess……. You’ll still get your weird blue maga votes i suppose.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I know, Harris couldn't have bent over more for reactionary conservatives that weren't raving mad Trump supporters if she had tried.

Then acting entitled to minority voters' support even going so far as to scold some of them like black men.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think the scolding headline for black men was Obama but not sure

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yes similar to Clinton telling Palestinian that European Jew have the right to take their lands.

[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

She seems to have lost worse than Hillary...

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

The DNC will continue to lose HARDER!! Until the morale improves

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 19 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

She was not only a women, she's a black women.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah ignore the fact that she stepped hard to the right and supported a genocide

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Think of all the Dick Cheney supporters who voted for Kamala.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dick Cheney probably has more followers on his only fans than voters he brought to the table.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Could be true if he actually brought positive numbers I don’t think onlyfans has negative numbers but I have also not spent any money there 👀

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I have also not spent any money there 👀

Sounds like something a subscriber to Dick Cheney's only fans would say.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Dick Cheney is an obvious dominatrix character from a Quentin terrantino movie

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I think that characters name is actually "Dick Chainey"

Common mistake.

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Did she win? No? Then it doesn't fucking matter!

What? Should she be getting a participation trophy? Sorry, I can't hear you over how Ukraine is being annexed by Russia.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I know right. They act like Harris was some plucky underdog. When in reality her party is only one of two that govern the most power country on earth.

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also it wasn't a toss up. Trump won every single swing state. All of them. This article is some mad copium. Prepare to see more of it over the next few days.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago

Aw man it was so close. I mean it wasn't, but she had a fierce competitor. The demented overweight felon rapist child molester won, but it was just the better choice overall

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Leave it to the modern journalist to spin a loss as a win. Comedic at best.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Panelist on pbs live election coverage was saying Harris ran a flawless campaign. They just dont get it.

[–] 01011@monero.town 11 points 23 hours ago

Lemmy users have been repeating the same bullshit.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why is no one discussing Dems have lost the senate and given a bigger majority in the house to Republicans. Even without Trump they are bound to control house and the senate.

Stand by for nothing happening for the next 2 years or worse.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I yearn for your optimism.

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Edit: If Kamala loses, and it looks like she might, I'm blaming her and her campaign. She could have swooned the beliefs of America if she had ran on something better.

Her political skills are trash.

Kamala gained the most approved points after Biden gave her the race.

Since then, her approval rating has plummeted compared to her early numbers, and I think this is because Kamala doesn't really know what to believe.

You can see it with Tim Walz. There was a lot of momentum when Kamala took up the mantle, and that momentum was carried through once the Walz pick came out. Then, around the DNC, the campaign's tone shifted, crawling back to the ethos of the Biden administration. I think this is because Kamala couldn't decide to break away from Biden or not, and because she waited so long, she was around a lot of the same people in the Biden administration, and those people influenced her platform. You can also see this with marijuana and how she changed sides in her time between being DA and senator. Also, how she didn't really have a solid platform to begin with, which should have been established right when Walz was picked.

I'm not here to call her out as a flip flopper. I'm pointing to how she could have steamrolled this election, but chose not to. It saddened me so much when the campaign had silence Tim for his views and policies when those views and policies were the key to victory.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

It's truly embarrassing as hell to have a Democratic party that can't absolutely crush a clown like Trump. The Democratic establishment isn't just out of touch, it's weak as fuck. Yes, this is on Kamala, but it's also on Obama, and the Clintons, and Pelosi, and Schumer, and the whole "anyone but Bernie" coalition. This is the consequence of running to the center instead of tackling wealth inequality head on.

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[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Close, but no cigar does not preserve actual democracy, unfortunately.

Calling yourself a democracy, and being a democracy are two very different things. The first proper word in North Korea's official country name is "Democratic", and bear in mind Russia holds "elections" as well.

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 94 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's honestly unreal that Trump is even in the race, let alone in a position to pull off a possible win. After everything that has happened. I try to keep a positive spirit in general, but it's not easy to be optimistic on behalf of the US right now.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's not unreal at all. I don't understand why time after time people underestimate what monsters the average American is.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (24 children)

I'd argue the opposite.

The fact that Americans are possibly still voting for someone who will bring in the Fourth Reich if elected, over the first female president is a sign of just how badly Democrats have dropped the ball. ESPECIALLY after Jan 6th.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

The fact that you thought I would vote for a WOMAN over a Rapist Felon who Promised to create HUGE Financial Hardships while killing my Daughter is LAUGHABLE!

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 307 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

It's not a testament to her abilities, it's a depressing statement about the state of America that a convicted felon, rapist, fascist loudman can be neck and neck with probably one of the smartest, most highly accomplished presidential candidates we've had in quite a while

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