Dem Occasion blame recreation: Accusations fly as to who’s accountable for Harris’ huge loss to Trump

The Democratic blame recreation is at a fever pitch after Vice President Kamala Harris was swiftly defeated by President-elect Donald Trump on the poll field in an election that had been anticipated to tug out for days as polling indicated the match-up was razor-thin. 

Trump sailed to victory within the early morning hours final Wednesday, after locking down key battlegrounds comparable to Pennsylvania and Georgia and clearing 270 electoral votes. He concluded the race with 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226, and received the favored vote. 

Within the ultimate days of the campaigning cycle, polling indicated that the outcomes for the election would possible be very shut, which might have resulted in state recounts and lawsuits earlier than the winner was introduced. 

Following Trump’s clear victory, Democrats throughout the nation issued statements accepting the outcomes and congratulating the president. Fallout from the devastating loss, nevertheless, has reverberated throughout the get together as members level fingers at one another for the Trump win. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech after the 2024 presidential election, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, on the campus of Howard College in Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi spar over claims Dems ‘deserted working class’

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pinned blame for the loss on the Democratic Occasion for “abandoning” the working class, sparking rebuke from former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi. 

“It ought to come as no nice shock {that a} Democratic Occasion which has deserted working class individuals would discover that the working class has deserted them. Whereas the Democratic management defends the established order, the American persons are indignant and need change,” Sanders posted to X final week, accompanied by a press launch on the election outcomes. “And so they’re proper.”

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Pelosi responded that the get together has not left the working class behind in favor of kowtowing to “large cash pursuits and well-paid consultants who management the Democratic Occasion,” as Sanders had argued in his press launch. 

“With all due respect, and I’ve quite a lot of respect for him [Sanders], for what he stands for, however I do not respect him saying that the Democratic Occasion has deserted the working class households. That is the place we’re,” Pelosi advised The New York Occasions’ “The Interview” podcast on Saturday.

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to talk throughout an election night time occasion on the Palm Seashore Conference Middle on November 6, 2024, in West Palm Seashore, Florida.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)

“Beneath President Biden, you see the rescue package deal, cash within the pockets of individuals, the photographs within the arm, kids in class safely, working individuals again to work. What did Trump do when he was president? One invoice that gave a tax lower to the richest individuals in America,” she continued. 

Sanders doubled down on his remarks Sunday, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker that “the working individuals of this nation are extraordinarily indignant.” 

“Nancy is a good friend of mine,” Sanders stated. “However right here is the fact. Within the Senate within the final two years, we now have not even introduced forth laws to lift the minimal wage to a residing wage even though some 20 million individuals on this nation are working for lower than $15 an hour.” 

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“Backside line, should you’re a working individual on the market, do you actually suppose that the Democratic Occasion goes to the max, taking over highly effective particular pursuits and preventing for you? I believe the overwhelming reply isn’t any,” Sanders stated.

Harris, Biden campaigns pin blame on one another 

The Harris marketing campaign and Biden marketing campaign have reportedly pinned blame for the loss on one another, Axios reported final week. 

“The 107-day Harris marketing campaign was almost flawless. The Biden marketing campaign that preceded it was the alternative,” one Harris marketing campaign member advised the outlet. 

“We did what we might. I believe the percentages towards us have been insurmountable,” one other particular person concerned with the Harris marketing campaign stated, referring to President Biden’s exit from the presidential race in July and his low approval scores. 

Biden dropped out of the race over the summer season following his disastrous debate efficiency towards Trump, the place he incessantly misplaced his prepare of thought and stumbled over his phrases. The controversy opened the floodgates to each conservatives and conventional Democrat allies calling on the president to go the torch to a youthful era as issues mounted surrounding his psychological acuity and his age. 

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Lots of those that labored on the Biden marketing campaign additionally joined the Harris marketing campaign following the president’s endorsement of his VP to take up the mantle as Democratic presidential candidate. 

An individual who labored on the Biden marketing campaign shot again in remark to Axios that the Harris group was responsible: “How did you spend $1 billion and never win? What the f—?”

“The Harris group benched [Biden], after which they misplaced, so now the individuals who signify Biden are saying, ‘Possibly you should not have benched him,'” one other individual acquainted with the dynamics between the groups stated. 

White Home spokesman Andrew Bates advised the outlet, “Anybody criticizing the vp’s marketing campaign is at odds with President Biden.”

Pelosi factors to Biden for loss 

Pelosi appeared to pin blame for the loss on the president, claiming that Biden had dropped out of the race too late within the recreation and that that hadn’t offered a chance for an open major. 

“Had the president gotten out sooner, there might have been different candidates within the race,” she advised the New York Occasions podcast. 

“The anticipation was that, if the president have been to step apart, that there can be an open major,” Pelosi continued. “. . . As a result of the president endorsed Kamala Harris instantly, that actually made it virtually unattainable to have a major at the moment. If it had been a lot earlier, it might have been totally different.” 

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Biden dropped out of the presidential race on a Sunday afternoon in July through a social media submit. He endorsed Harris minutes later in a follow-up X submit, sparking different Democrats to rally across the VP. 

Pelosi did defend Biden in June, when the Wall Road Journal ran an article doubting Biden’s psychological health as president.

​​”Many people hung out with @WSJ to share on the report our first-hand experiences with @POTUS, the place we see his knowledge, expertise, power and strategic considering,” Pelosi wrote on X on the time. “As a substitute, the Journal ignored testimony by Democrats, centered on assaults by Republicans and printed successful piece.”

Pelosi, in addition to different high-profile Democrats comparable to Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, additionally notably referred to as on Biden to run for a second time period forward of the 2024 cycle kicking off in earnest. 

Obama responsible?

Different Democrats and insiders pointed to former President Barack Obama for the loss, after Obama reportedly labored within the background over the summer season to encourage Biden’s ouster from the race. 

A handful of Obama’s allies and former advisers helped lead the cost in calling on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race earlier this summer season, together with former Obama adviser David Axelrod saying that Biden was “not successful this race;” longtime Obama good friend George Clooney calling on the president to drop out of the race in a bombshell op-ed; and Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for Obama, additionally calling on Biden to drop out of the race forward of his eventual departure. 

“There is no such thing as a singular cause why we misplaced, however a giant cause is as a result of the Obama advisers publicly inspired Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even need Kamala Harris because the nominee, after which signed up because the saviors of the marketing campaign, solely to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” one former Biden staffer advised Politico.

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a marketing campaign rally supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Picture/Matt Rourke)

DNC Nationwide Finance Committee member and Harris marketing campaign fundraiser Lindy Li advised Fox Information this weekend that Obama’s seemingly delayed endorsement of Harris after Biden dropped out added to Harris’ defeat. 

​​”I wish to level out they waited three days – Michelle and Barack Obama waited three days to endorse Kamala Harris,” Li stated on “Fox & Pals Weekend” on Saturday. “It was the silence heard around the world.”

“The reality is, that is simply an epic catastrophe – it is a $1 billion catastrophe,” Li added in the course of the interview. 

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Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, with the Obamas endorsing Harris in a video message posted to social media on July 26, 5 days after Biden’s announcement. The silence was not misplaced on the media, as headlines unfold throughout the nation on Obama’s “silence.” 

David Axelrod says Dem Occasion morphing into ‘smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated get together’

Just like Sanders, longtime Democratic strategist David Axelrod appeared to pin blame for the loss on the Democratic Occasion’s shift away from blue-collar, center class voters. 

“You possibly can’t method working individuals like missionaries and say, ‘We’re right here that can assist you turn out to be extra like us.’ There’s a sort of unstated disdain, unintended disdain in that,” the CNN contributor stated final week. 

“The one group … Democrats received amongst have been individuals who make greater than $100,000 a yr,” Axelrod stated. “You possibly can’t win nationwide elections that approach, and it actually shouldn’t be that approach for a celebration that fashions itself because the get together of working individuals.”

“I believe Biden has performed programmatically some good issues for working individuals. However the get together itself has more and more turn out to be a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated get together, and it lends itself to the sort of backlash that we’ve seen,” he continued.

Claims of underwhelming VP alternative 

After Biden’s exit from the race, Harris concurrently launched her marketing campaign in addition to her seek for a operating mate, combing by means of a listing of high-profile Democrats and lesser-known allies earlier than selecting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Democrats finally rallied behind Walz, however one other alternative, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, was considered by many as the higher candidate to get the Democratic Occasion throughout the end line victoriously.

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“As a founding member of She Shoulda Picked Shapiro, I believe it is comparatively clear now that she made a mistake,” statistician Nate Silver advised the New York Occasions forward of Election Day. 

“Pennsylvania appears to be lagging slightly behind the opposite blue-wall states. In the meantime, Walz was mediocre within the debate, and he is been mediocre and nervous in his public appearances.”

Li advised Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Jacqui Heinrich from Howard College, the place Harris held her election night time get together, that Shapiro would possible have aided the Harris marketing campaign’s efforts to notch an enormous victory. 

“One of many issues which can be high of thoughts is the selection of Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate,” Li stated. “Lots of people are saying tonight that it ought to have been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, individuals have been saying that for months.”

Contemplating Pennsylvania’s battleground-state standing, the favored first-term governor was considered as a possible key for the Harris marketing campaign to achieve the coveted 270 electoral votes to lock up the election. Shapiro, who’s Jewish, was additionally touted as a possible bridge for the Harris marketing campaign to court docket Jewish voters amid backlash over her earlier feedback defending anti-Israel protesters who rocked faculty campuses final yr in the course of the battle in Israel.

James Carville says Harris marketing campaign fail might boil down to at least one interview 

Longtime Democratic political guide James Carville stated the Harris marketing campaign’s loss might boil right down to her interview on “The View,” when co-host Sunny Hostin requested Harris to determine an instance of something she would have performed in a different way from Biden. 

“I believe if this marketing campaign is reducible to at least one second, we’re in a 65% wrong-track nation. The nation desires one thing totally different. And he or she’s requested, as is so typically the case, in a pleasant viewers, on ‘The View,’ ‘How would you be totally different than Biden?’ That’s the one query that you just exist to reply, alright? That’s it. That’s the cash query. That is the one you need,” Carville stated on “The Bulwark Podcast” on Saturday. 

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“That’s the one that everyone desires to know the reply to. And also you freeze. You actually freeze and say, ‘Properly, I can’t consider something,’” Carville continued. 

Hostin had requested Harris within the October interview, “If something, would you’ve got performed one thing in a different way than President Biden in the course of the previous 4 years?” 

“There may be not a factor that involves thoughts,” Harris answered.

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump gestures as he holds fingers along with his spouse, Melania, at his victory speech on the Palm Seashore County Conference Middle in West Palm Seashore, Florida on November 6, 2024.  (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Harris’ remark stands in stark distinction to how voters have been feeling: They have been sad with the present administration’s management.  

Preliminary information from the Fox Information Voter Evaluation, a survey of greater than 110,000 voters nationwide, discovered that almost all of voters headed into the polls believing that the nation was headed within the mistaken path. 

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Voters, forward of casting their ballots, reported that the nation was on the mistaken monitor (70%, up from 60% who felt that approach 4 years in the past) and that they have been searching for one thing totally different. Most wished a change in how the nation is run, with roughly 1 / 4 searching for full and complete upheaval.

Fox Information Digital’s Taylor Penley and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.