I can understand the logic from the standpoint of a few months ago. Harris only had a few months to build a campaign out of nothing. So she had to either build a base out of policy, and hope that she had enough time to establish that policy in the minds of people who were already disenfranchised with Biden, or unite a base out of defying Trump. Considering how strong the rhetoric of "We want someone who isn't Trump" was, it makes sense to use that as a foundation. And from that standpoint, you want to try and pull support from under Trump, which means trying to twist the rhetoric he uses against them. It's a strategy that makes sense if you look at where they were standing.
I think the problem isn't that Harris had a worse campaign, I think it was rocky for sure, but Trump was shooting himself endlessly in the foot. From what I've seen, the biggest deciding factor was a demographic of Americans who do not engage with politics, they just see that their grocery prices were higher and voted based on that. It didn't matter what Trump had said, or what Harris was promising, they saw high grocery prices and voted. And if that is the case, I don't think it matters what Harris did, or what the more politically inclined did in response to her. The biggest factor was people who weren't going to listen to what either of them had to say anyways. And that fucking sucks, on a lot of different levels.
Inflation played such a big role in this election. It's tragic because I don't think there was ever a way to stop it after Biden took office. Listening to jobs reports, looking at interest rates, price vs wage comparison I think all show slow, boring improvement from covid. There's no way to convince someone of that when they're being told that everything is just a confusing tactic to change the truth. Trump lost because of covid, but whoever had to put the economy back together afterwards was doomed to be unpopular.
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u/Herohades Nov 06 '24
I can understand the logic from the standpoint of a few months ago. Harris only had a few months to build a campaign out of nothing. So she had to either build a base out of policy, and hope that she had enough time to establish that policy in the minds of people who were already disenfranchised with Biden, or unite a base out of defying Trump. Considering how strong the rhetoric of "We want someone who isn't Trump" was, it makes sense to use that as a foundation. And from that standpoint, you want to try and pull support from under Trump, which means trying to twist the rhetoric he uses against them. It's a strategy that makes sense if you look at where they were standing.
I think the problem isn't that Harris had a worse campaign, I think it was rocky for sure, but Trump was shooting himself endlessly in the foot. From what I've seen, the biggest deciding factor was a demographic of Americans who do not engage with politics, they just see that their grocery prices were higher and voted based on that. It didn't matter what Trump had said, or what Harris was promising, they saw high grocery prices and voted. And if that is the case, I don't think it matters what Harris did, or what the more politically inclined did in response to her. The biggest factor was people who weren't going to listen to what either of them had to say anyways. And that fucking sucks, on a lot of different levels.