Harris’s campaign was pretty well and truly fucked over by Biden, and it’s a miracle it was as close as it was.so props to Harris on that.
Also Clinton “gave” Harris her campaign strategist staff which is why they benched Walz and his “they’re weird”. I’m not sure if it was meaning to help or just out of spite, though.
Either way, the two campaigns were not the same.
Edit to add:
Clinton lost because she was a lousy candidate, and ran a campaign on rank condescension that alienated key voter blocks.
Harris lost because Biden basically fucked it over, she got handed an absolute disaster, and was in a position where she could either undermine what little Biden was trying to do with Netanyahu or alienate a different key voting block.
and yes, Biden absolutely would not have won.
none of this is to say that mysogyny didn't play a role, one would be an idiot to say otherwise, but ultimately, Harris did remarkably well given the shit show she was handed.
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