The 5 deadly errors that doomed Harris’ marketing campaign towards Trump

Vice President Harris suffered an enormous loss to President-elect Donald Trump this week, shedding her marketing campaign as Trump swept battleground and historically Republican states alike that catapulted him previous the wanted 270 electoral school votes. 

Harris’ truncated marketing campaign cycle, which solely launched towards the top of July after President Biden dropped out of the race and handed the torch to his VP, was marked by a handful of gaffes and missteps that haunted her efforts to courtroom voters and have become political fodder for Trump and his marketing campaign. 

Fox Information Digital examined Harris’ roughly 100-day marketing campaign and compiled the vp’s largest marketing campaign errors that possible value her assist on the poll field. 

Harris declares she wouldn’t do something otherwise than President Biden

In what was arguably Harris’ largest marketing campaign misstep, the vp declared early in October whereas showing on “The View” that she couldn’t consider an instance of the place she differed with President Biden on a coverage determination or political place throughout the administration. 

“If something, would you’ve gotten finished one thing otherwise than President Biden throughout the previous 4 years?” 

“There’s not a factor that involves thoughts,” Harris answered.

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 the nation was headed within the fallacious path. 

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Michigan State College, Nov. 3, 2024, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)

Voters forward of casting their ballots reported that the nation was on the fallacious observe (70%, up from 60% who felt that method 4 years in the past) and 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.

“Kamala Harris is extra of the identical,” Vice President-elect JD Vance posted to X final month about Harris’ touch upon “The View.” “She admits it herself.”

“This would be the nail in Kamala Harris’s coffin,” The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis predicted final month. 

“It jogs my memory of John Kerry’s ‘I voted for the $87 billion earlier than I voted towards it’ remark about Iraq battle funding when he was combating prices of being a spineless flip-flopper,” he added. “That single remark ended his marketing campaign.”

Harris accused of utilizing ‘new accent’ throughout marketing campaign occasions; ‘phrase salad’ gaffes 

Harris was accused a handful of instances of unveiling a “new accent” whereas chatting with totally different voters throughout the nation, together with critics evaluating her to a cartoon character at one level and a preacher at one other marketing campaign occasion. 

Harris traveled to the Church of Christian Compassion in Philadelphia final month, the place she spoke to the predominantly Black congregants and telling them that in simply 9 days, voters will “have the facility to resolve the destiny of our nation for generations to come back.”

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Harris cited the Guide of Psalms in her remarks, together with saying, “Weeping could endure for an evening, however pleasure cometh within the mornin’. The trail could seem laborious, the work could seem heavy, however pleasure cometh within the mornin’ and church morning is on its method.” 

Critics on social media pounced on clips of Harris quoting Psalms, saying she debuted a brand new “pastor” accent, evaluating her inflection to the late Rev. Martin Luther King’s oratory.

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Whereas talking earlier than union staff throughout a Detroit Labor Day rally, she was criticized for utilizing an accent that was in comparison with “Foghorn Leghorn.”

“Since when does the vp have what seems like a Southern accent?” Fox Information’ Peter Doocy requested White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in September after her Detroit speech that was in comparison with the cartoon character. 

“I don’t know what you’re speaking about,” Jean-Pierre replied.

“Nicely, she was speaking about unions in Detroit utilizing one tone of voice, she used the identical line in Pittsburgh, and it gave the impression of she no less than had some form of Southern drawl,” Doocy pressed.

“I imply, do you hear the query that you just’re – I imply, do you suppose People significantly suppose that this is a crucial query?” Jean-Pierre pushed again. “You understand what they care about? They care in regards to the financial system, they care about reducing prices, they care about well being care. That’s what they need to hear … democracy and freedom … I’m not going to even entertain some query about … it’s simply … listening to it sounds so ridiculous. The query – I’m speaking in regards to the query – is simply insane.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a local of Chicago, has additionally repeatedly been accused of using totally different accents throughout her a long time within the public eye, most notably for utilizing a southern drawl.

Harris was additionally slammed for rambling “phrase salads” throughout repeated public occasions, which the Trump marketing campaign and critics steadily mocked. 

“We have to guard that spirit. We’ve to protect that spirit. Let it at all times encourage us. Let it at all times be the supply of our optimism, which is that spirit that’s uniquely American. Let that then encourage us by serving to us to be impressed to unravel the issues that so many face, together with our small enterprise homeowners,” Harris stated, for instance, in September whereas chatting with the Financial Membership of Pittsburgh. 

“I grew up understanding the youngsters of the group are the youngsters of the group, and we must always all have a vested curiosity in making certain that youngsters can go develop up with the sources that they should obtain their God-given potential,” she stated on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s forty seventh annual Management Convention in Washington, D.C., in September. 

In one other “phrase salad” misstep simply days forward of the election, Harris stated, “We’re right here as a result of we’re combating for a democracy. Combating for a democracy. And perceive the distinction right here, perceive the distinction right here, shifting ahead, shifting ahead, perceive the distinction right here.”

Harris avoids the media for weeks, fails to carry a press convention 

Harris carried out her 107-day marketing campaign with out holding a single press convention, and she or he prevented sit-down media interviews for the primary 38 days of her marketing campaign earlier than lastly becoming a member of CNN for an interview. 

Trump held no less than six information conferences by which he took questions from the media for the reason that starting of August. Harris held none, however did have a number of casual press gaggles all through the marketing campaign.

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The Harris-Walz marketing campaign elevated their media presence within the ultimate weeks of the marketing campaign, together with Harris becoming a member of a CNN city corridor and interviews with NBC Information, Telemundo and CBS, along with a number of podcasts and native information stations. She additionally sat down with Fox Information’ Bret Baier final month, which Baier described as a “contentious” interview. 

Touted celeb endorsements in marketing campaign occasions 

Harris repeatedly leaned on celebrities throughout the marketing campaign, together with touting their star standing for flash rallies. 

Harris held a rally final month in purple Texas the place she was joined by celebrities corresponding to Beyoncé, Jessica Alba and Willie Nelson. Harris’ rally included an estimated 30,000 folks as phrase unfold that Beyoncé was slated to look on the rally. The pop star formally endorsed Harris throughout her look however didn’t carry out any songs.

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Forward of the rally, media shops corresponding to MSNBC reported Beyoncé wouldn’t solely seem however would additionally possible carry out on the rally. Beyoncé didn’t carry out, sparking the Trump marketing campaign to argue that Harris “lied” about Beyoncé’s look on the rally in an effort to “construct a crowd.”

Houston native Beyoncé Knowles speaks throughout Vice President Harris’ rally, Oct. 25, 2024, at Shell Vitality Stadium in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle by way of Getty Photos)

In Pennsylvania, which was seen because the state that will possible decide the result of the general election, Harris held a bevy of occasions on her ultimate day on the marketing campaign path. She was joined at rallies in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia by celebrities corresponding to Cedric the Entertainer, Katy Perry, Andra Day, DJ Cassidy, Fats Joe and Ricky Martin and Woman Gaga. 

“The opposite factor that makes me nervous, in 2016 we had a giant star-studded occasion proper on the sting of the election, and we misplaced the state,” liberal political analyst Van Jones stated on CNN forward of the election, referring to Harris’ Pennsylvania rallies. 

Harris’ regular assist from celebrities comes as voters reported that the financial system and jobs have been their most vital points heading into the election as inflation since 2021 has throttled People’ pocketbooks. 

Lackluster VP choice 

After Biden’s exit from the race – as considerations mounted over his psychological acuity and age – Harris concurrently launched her marketing campaign in addition to her seek for a operating mate, combing by way 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 seen 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 instructed the New York Instances forward of Election Day. 

Democrat vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Oct. 28, 2024. (AP/Paul Sancya)

“Pennsylvania appears to be lagging somewhat 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.”

Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li instructed Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Jacqui Heinrich from Howard College, the place Harris held her election evening occasion, that Shapiro would possible have aided the Harris marketing campaign’s efforts to notch an enormous victory. 

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Vice President Harris and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro communicate to the press whereas making a cease on the Studying Terminal Market in Philadelphia on July 13, 2024. (RYAN COLLERD/AFP)

“One of many issues which might 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, folks have been saying that for months.”

Contemplating Pennsylvania’s battleground-state standing, the favored first-term governor was seen as a possible key for the Harris marketing campaign to succeed in 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 courtroom Jewish voters amid backlash over her earlier feedback defending anti-Israel protesters who rocked school campuses final yr throughout the battle in Israel.

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Pennsylvania finally voted for Trump and moved him throughout the end line.

Fox Information Digital’s Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.

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