The Democrats had a long year. First they were trying to gaslight everybody about President Biden being "sharp as a tack" until the debate made the reality too glaring to try and hide via claims like "cheap fakes," etc.
Then Biden was shown the door and the Dems made Kamala Harris their nominee without a vote ever being cast (to "save democracy" or something). What happened next was disaster for the Democratic Party:
New research shows the massive hole Dems are in https://t.co/et0Tc2H9Yl
— POLITICO (@politico) December 23, 2024
Pictured above are two of the people who did a lot of the digging, but they had help:
Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn’t just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.
When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”
Someday the Dem Party might be compared to Dodo birds because they seem determined to go extinct.
Politico also interviewed some Trump campaign staffers and a pollster were asked what their most effective ad material was leading up to the election last month.
There were some great Republican ads that featured Trump speaking, but the most effective ads featured you know who:
.@TonyFabrizioGOP was asked, "What did your data show was your most effective ad against her [Harris]?"
— stratton (@StrattonH) December 22, 2024
"There were several. Well, first, usually any ad where she was talking, was effective. Using her words. And there were a ton. In fact, there was so much, we couldn’t use all… https://t.co/NTU6hyuSZQ
We're NOT surprised.
Trump's campaign people knew Kamala's weakness.
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) December 23, 2024
Any time she was talking. 😂 pic.twitter.com/zcQnCXNL09
The Harris campaign knew that too. There were reasons the Dems kept Kamala's public exposure to a minimum.
What did your data show was your most effective ad against her?
Fabrizio: There were several. Well, first, usually any ad where she was talking, was effective. Using her words. And there were a ton. In fact, there was so much, we couldn’t use all of it.
The "Harris then vs. Harris now" stuff was also effective.
She was the democrat’s idea of the most historic president ever. Lmfao!
— hotStepper (@ChuteShoot) December 23, 2024
Their race and gender politics are over.
Even her supporters knew it, even if they wouldn’t say it out loud.
— BB (@BBinWVviaLA) December 23, 2024
The "excitement" about Kamala's campaign was all made up and they had to get celebs like Beyonce and Oprah to show up to convey the impression her campaign was energized.
Harris picking Tim Walz certainly didn't help her either... quite the opposite:
Did your data show that she would be rewarded, politically, from breaking from Biden?
Fabrizio: The problem was it would have undercut Democratic enthusiasm and motivation.
Did your polls show that?
LaCivita: Yeah. When you talk about if she had gone to the center — they had no intention of ever going to the center because they’re incapable of doing that. If she was going to run the center, she would have picked [Pennsylvania Gov. Josh] Shapiro to be her running mate.
It's possible that Shapiro was asked and turned it down because he recognized a sinking ship when he saw one.
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