After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, she and her allies refused to accept responsibility and instead
blamed Former FBI Director James Comey, Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Barack Obama, WikiLeaks, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ikola, Vt.), alleged sexists, and of course “millions of white people… ”.
Having just lost the 2024 election to President Donald Trump by an even wider margin, Kamala Harris and her campaign, as well as their Democratic allies, are similarly looking for someone or something else to blame. There is.
Rather than admit that Harris ran a bad campaign with a weak and amorphous message, or her radicalism, lack of transparency, alienation of key voter blocs, communication difficulties, and the Democratic primary. Instead of allowing voters to be disenfranchised and prioritized in elections, Atmosphere rather than policythat Biden's complicity in failure, collusion with a dishonest media likely alienated voters, or that Trump was simply president. pitch improved For the Americans, they settled on a scapegoat instead. President Joe Biden is a man who spent years pretending he was worthy of office, only to be unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Min Jung Lee
said “Obviously, in the coming days, there's going to be a lot of soul-searching and a lot of questions about what could have been done differently by Democrats and the Harris campaign,” Wolf Blitzer said Wednesday. One thing we're already starting to see is that the problem is going to be a lot of blame and blame, and a lot of it will be directed at President Biden.
“President Biden bears the greatest responsibility for this loss.”
Lee added that attempts to blame Biden “are also coming from some people in the Harris campaign. One senior official I spoke to said, 'Biden will take a lot of responsibility for this.' “And frankly they said, 'Biden said this,'” he added. Should. '”
Before deleting the X account on Wednesday, Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe implied that Biden had left Harris in limbo.
write“We dug out of a deep hole, but it wasn't enough. It's a devastating loss.”
Mr. Biden has consistently polled better than Ms. Harris, but he has called millions of Trump supporters “trash,” humiliated the vice president during Hurricane Helen, and lost ground in Pennsylvania. Trump did the vice president no favors by wearing a 2024 hat after the 9/11 memorial service. But Harris' allies seem primarily upset by Biden's decision to run in the first place. The signal was sent years ago. He will only serve one term.
Several Democratic Party officials, including three of Harris's campaign aides,
said The Associated Press said Biden should have thrown in the towel sooner.
The people filing the complaint, who requested anonymity, said Harris and other Democratic candidates would have to wait until Biden is ousted from the race in what some are calling a “coup” to portray themselves as the winner. He seems to believe he would have had more than 107 days to fabricate the story. agenda.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who supported Harris but lost, said, “The biggest responsibility for this defeat lies with President Biden.'' “If he had resigned in January instead of in July, we could have been in a very different situation.”
“Harris has been treated really badly,” said Matt Bennett, executive vice president of the Democratic-leaning think tank Third Way. Ta.
“He shouldn't have run,” said Jim Manley, a close aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
said Politico. “This is not the time to roll with punches or care about anyone's feelings. He and his staff have done great harm to this country.”
Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh similarly suggested that “Biden should have stepped back sooner and let his party come up with a long-term strategy.”
Democrats have appeared reluctant to criticize Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and other Democrats who ostensibly pushed Harris' popular boss out of the race. is.
biden
reportedly On Wednesday, he called President Trump to congratulate him on his historic victory and invited him to the White House.
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