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UpstateNYer's avatar

lol, this site is approaching full DK front page status. She was an objectively awful candidate from the start, which is why Biden kneecapped her to stick to the Dem establishment that forced him out. Last Tuesday proves this.

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Jonathan's avatar

personal insults are a great persuasive argument

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JanusIanitos's avatar

Good candidates can lose, or bad candidates can win, depending on the environment and locale they're running in. Plenty of horrible republican candidates won in 2010 and 2014 for instance, solely because of the environment.

A lot could be said about Harris' 2020 primary performance... but the 2020 primary is not a permitted topic here. In 2024 I feel comfortable saying she ran an excellent national campaign. She still lost, despite that. Maybe if she was an Obama-level candidate she could have eked out a win, but if that's our standard for good/bad candidate, then >95% of major candidates would qualify as bad.

There are absolutely things we can learn from this year to improve and do better in future elections. Her running a good campaign is not an absolution for her or our party from an impetus to do better next time. Ultimately I think the core issue this cycle was the political environment and that winning harder than losing as a result.

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