Dem Social gathering blame sport: Accusations fly as to who’s answerable for Harris’ large loss to Trump

The Democratic blame sport 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 akin 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 doubtless be very shut, which may 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 occasion as members level fingers at one another for the Trump win. 

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

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

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,” Sanders posted to X final week, accompanied by a press launch on the election outcomes. “And they’re right.”

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Pelosi responded that the occasion has not left the working class behind in favor of kowtowing to “big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party,” as Sanders had argued in his press launch. 

“With all due respect, and I have a great deal of respect for him [Sanders], for what he stands for, but I don’t respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class families. That’s where we are,” Pelosi informed The New York Occasions’ “The Interview” podcast on Saturday.

“Under President Biden, you see the rescue package, money in the pockets of people, the shots in the arm, children in school safely, working people back to work. What did Trump do when he was president? One bill that gave a tax cut to the richest people in America,” she continued. 

Sanders doubled down on his remarks Sunday, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker that “the working people of this country are extremely angry.” 

“Nancy is a friend of mine,” Sanders mentioned. “But here is the reality. In the Senate in the last two years, we have not even brought forth legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage despite the fact that some 20 million people in this country are working for less than $15 an hour.” 

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“Bottom line, if you’re a working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the max, taking on powerful special interests and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no,” Sanders mentioned.

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 campaign was nearly flawless. The Biden campaign that preceded it was the opposite,” one Harris marketing campaign member informed the outlet. 

“We did what we could. I think the odds against us were insurmountable,” one other particular person concerned with the Harris marketing campaign mentioned, 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 time following his disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump, the place he ceaselessly misplaced his practice of thought and stumbled over his phrases. The talk opened the floodgates to each conservatives and conventional Democrat allies calling on the president to move the torch to a youthful technology as considerations mounted surrounding his psychological acuity and his age. 

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A lot 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 crew was in charge: “How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the f—?”

“The Harris team benched [Biden], and then they lost, so now the people who represent Biden are saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have benched him,’” one other individual aware of the dynamics between the groups mentioned. 

White Home spokesman Andrew Bates informed the outlet, “Anyone criticizing the vice president’s 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 sport and that that hadn’t supplied a possibility for an open main. 

“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” she informed the New York Occasions podcast. 

“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” Pelosi continued. “. . . Because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.” 

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Biden dropped out of the presidential race on a Sunday afternoon in July by way of a social media put up. He endorsed Harris minutes later in a follow-up X put up, 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 frolicked with @WSJ to share on the document our first-hand experiences with @POTUS, the place we see his knowledge, expertise, power and strategic pondering,” Pelosi wrote on X on the time. “Instead, the Journal ignored testimony by Democrats, focused on attacks by Republicans and printed a hit piece.”

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

Obama in charge?

Different Democrats and insiders pointed to former President Barack Obama for the loss, after Obama reportedly labored within the background over the summer time 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 time, together with former Obama adviser David Axelrod saying that Biden was “not winning this race;” longtime Obama pal 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 singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign, only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” one former Biden staffer informed Politico.

DNC Nationwide Finance Committee member and Harris marketing campaign fundraiser Lindy Li informed 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 mentioned on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday. “It was the silence heard round the world.”

“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster – this is a $1 billion disaster,” Li added throughout 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 Social gathering morphing into ‘smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party’

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

“You can’t approach working people like missionaries and say, ‘We’re here to help you become more like us.’ There’s a kind of unspoken disdain, unintended disdain in that,” the CNN contributor mentioned final week. 

“The only group … Democrats won among were people who make more than $100,000 a year,” Axelrod mentioned. “You can’t win national elections that way, and it certainly shouldn’t be that way for a party that fashions itself as the party of working people.”

“I think Biden has done programmatically some good things for working people. But the party itself has increasingly become a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party, and it lends itself to the kind of backlash that we’ve seen,” he continued.

Claims of underwhelming VP selection 

After Biden’s exit from the race, Harris concurrently launched her marketing campaign in addition to her seek for a operating mate, combing via 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 selection, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, was seen by many as the higher candidate to get the Democratic Social gathering throughout the end line victoriously.

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“As a founding member of She Shoulda Picked Shapiro, I think it’s relatively clear now that she made a mistake,” statistician Nate Silver informed the New York Occasions forward of Election Day. 

“Pennsylvania seems to be lagging a little behind the other blue-wall states. Meanwhile, Walz was mediocre in the debate, and he’s been mediocre and nervous in his public appearances.”

Li informed Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Jacqui Heinrich from Howard College, the place Harris held her election night time occasion, that Shapiro would doubtless have aided the Harris marketing campaign’s efforts to notch a large victory. 

“One of the things that are top of mind is the choice of Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate,” Li mentioned. “A lot of people are saying tonight that it should have been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, people 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 court docket Jewish voters amid backlash over her earlier feedback defending anti-Israel protesters who rocked school campuses final 12 months throughout the struggle in Israel.

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

Longtime Democratic political guide James Carville mentioned the Harris marketing campaign’s loss may boil all the way down to her interview on “The View,” when co-host Sunny Hostin requested Harris to establish an instance of something she would have executed in another way from Biden. 

“I think if this campaign is reducible to one moment, we are in a 65% wrong-track country. The country wants something different. And she’s asked, as is so often the case, in a friendly audience, on ‘The View,’ ‘How would you be different than Biden?’ That’s the one question that you exist to answer, alright? That is it. That’s the money question. That’s the one you want,” Carville mentioned on “The Bulwark Podcast” on Saturday. 

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“That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to. And you freeze. You literally freeze and say, ‘Well, I can’t think of anything,’” Carville continued. 

Hostin had requested Harris within the October interview, “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” 

“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” 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 knowledge 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 fallacious route. 

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

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