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.
The voters are basically the same every election. Yeah they evolve over time but not quickly. You can’t blame populace for being exactly who they are.
They weren’t enthusiastic about Kamala, and if you ask me it has everything to do with the economy and approximately fuck all to do with anything else. But you can’t fault the people any more than you can fault the tide when there is a flood.
I can absolutely fault every single person who didn’t vote in either the primary or the general for giving up their voice. Voting is the only speech that matters in respect to who is sworn into office. If you don’t speak up when it counts then I will absolutely call you out for complaining about the result.
You either meet people where they are, you find a strategy to move the people, or you lose. None of that is on the people. Your blame changes nothing. It’s wishful thinking — you go into the election with the voters you have, not the voters you wish you had.
And voters go into the election with the nominees they have, not the nominees they wish they had. And to be clear, people who skip an election because the equate that to voting for “none of the above” are non-voters in that election. The reality we have is that [for over 99% of the state and federal legislative offices and for the presidency] either the Democratic or the Republican nominee will win that election regardless of how many people don’t vote or why they chose not to. Not voting lowers the number of votes needed for the other side of the political spectrum to win. It’s the last chance for the voting-eligible public to effect the outcome of that election, and to skip it and silence themselves and then complain about the outcome deserves being confronted over. And again, pointing this out does not excuse the failure of Kamala/Walz and their campaign runners and the DNC of their faults. All of them have blame here.
Oh no, baronvonj on lemmy “blames” me for Kamala and the DNC shitting the bed and running a candidate who wouldnt deviate from a platform with underwater approval rates and wildly illegal genocide support. eyeroll
Please send me your thoughts and prayers, everyone. I’m in bad shape and I think about this all the time.
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On a more serious note, Ken Martin is an idiot and needs to be thrown bodily from the party.
No, that’s a strawman, I never blamed non-voters for Kamala’s campaign or the DNC. I blame them for not voting because that made it easier for Trump to win, by lowering the number of votes he needed to do so. I do blame Kamala for her policies and her campaign managers for their campaign. But I accept that this is real life with real consequences and come election day it was either going to be Trump or Kamala announced as the winner regardless of those things, so I voted against Trump.