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Once a campaign fails, the knives come out.
This morning, Christopher Cadelago, California Bureau Chief for Politico, tweeted this out:
Kamala Harris's campaign ended with at least $20 million in debt, per two sources familiar. Harris raised over $1 billion and had $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16.
So, where did the money go? The internet is rife with rumors and none of it is well sourced. When the final FEC filings come out, we'll really get an inside look at who got what.
There were indications last week that the Harris campaign was in a panic. National sales managers with large station groups were telling reporters that Harris was canceling large ad buys in North Carolina and moving them into Virginia. Then they heard that buys would be made on a daily basis.
This morning, the Thursday after the election, The New York Times reports that Future Forward, a progressive Super PAC, was telling Bill Clinton that Trump's ad featuring radio host Charlamagne Tha God complaining about Harris' support of taxpayer-provided transgender surgeries was moving the needle among black and Latino men by over 2.7 points. Clinton begged the campaign to answer, and they assured him the ads weren't as effective as he thought they were. That's malfeasance.
And there will be more to come.
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Of course, many of the excuses are lame. "Biden was too old"--my father is 94. He's far sharper than Biden. Biden is feebleminded, not the same thing. Plus people hated his decisions even before dementia was obvious.
"Inflation was high all over the world. It wasn't his fault." Because center-left governments all over the world used fiscal heroin to deal with Covid. And center-left governments all over the world got their rear ends kicked.
"Can't rule out racism"--want to compare Harris's results to Obama's? And 2008 was sixteen long years ago, when this country would have been even race-ier.
"Harris was unfairly tagged with things she said and wrote five years ago"--Republicans get tagged for trying to cop a feel in high school 40 years ago.
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No matter how much money Harris might spend on advertising, people were still suffering from the high inflation that the Biden/Harrison administration failed to tame. Harris also couldn’t hide her complicity in the influx of illegal immigrants.
it is also abundantly clear that the electorate perceived the lawfare against Donald Trump as political persecution.
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Still much work to be done though, since it was only 51/49 or 50.5/49.5 or whatever.
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Umm, Gary, who was in charge of the US government during the height of Covid?
Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate.
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Isn't inflation principally a monetary phenomenon?
How would any President "tame" inflation? I don't think that the President has the tools available to do so. It's mostly a matter of Federal Reserve actions.
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