NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America” during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower,” according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.

The committee’s chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic operatives concerned with his leadership. Martin had originally promised to release the autopsy, only to keep it under wraps for months because he was concerned it would be a distraction ahead of the midterms as Democrats mobilize to take back control of Congress.

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    Kamala Harris “was absolutely uninspiring” and “appointed by the DNC” and “was fine with genocide” and “was a continuation of the ruling class that everyone hates, and couldn’t fake not being that”

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      I remember when she was caught on a hot mic cosplaying as a regular person in a bar: “We want to improve our ground game with young men.”

      Well.

      They told you what they wanted, and it wasn’t to be finger-wagged by Barack Obama. Should have listened.

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        I don’t think it’s a matter of listening, even. The Democrats are fundamentally, structurally incapable of offering the public “what they want,” not to mention conjuring up an authentic figurehead for it.

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    Failed to listen to rural America

    No shit. All we were asking for was for Dems to stop sending WMD’s to a genocide and address cost of living. They couldn’t be bothered to do either.

    Also, this campaign had something like three billion dollars that they blew in mere months. I want to see a financial audit of this campaign too.

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    I’ve always said the Democratic Party is like The Producers - they’re aiming to lose. It’s hard to see how anyone with half a clue could mismanage things this badly. If it’s not intentional, then they’re the most out of touch people on the planet.