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God damn imagining being handed the fukken election and blowing it all in just over a hundred days. From the moment of Kamala's blood and soil-ass DNC speech to now her campaign staff has seemingly been doing everything it possibly could to lose.
This isn't like with Hillary where she came into the race with decades of baggage. Kamala was almost a blank slate, and had every opportunity to define who she was and what politics she represented over the past three months. She fucking chose to tack right, validate everything the Republicans have been saying about a dozen issues, abandon large chunks of the Democratic voting bloc, kill Democrat messaging that was actually working (calling R's "weird," talking about abortion rights), bring ghouls like the Cheneys on stage and utterly refuse to say the one goddamn thing that ninety percent of the under-thirty voters wanted her to say.
They'll say it was because she didn't pick Shapiro as her running mate
God, I hope not. They would, though. "Go even farther right! That's what we need to do!"
"We're just a center-right country, after all, what else can we say?" they'll sigh, as they settle in for brunch.
I'm playing with the idea that this is all intentional, with the goal of discipling Dem voters to accept more and more right wing politics. Like next round they're going to trot out actual Hitler and scream "He's electable if you vote for him!"
The coalition they built was a win-win if the Dems' goal was not to win but to push the party further right.
If they won without any youth or progressive vote, then they would have carte blanche to tell them to fuck off in future elections.
If they lose, they'll blame the election on progressives and youths and tell them to fuck off in future elections.
when the fuck did Kamala have a 20 point advantage
the exact moment joe pulled out, i guess
the trump shooting was completely nullified and vance was openly being called a couchfucker
just no, she never had a 20 point advantage. not even close. https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/national
unless youre talking about something else, which in that case plz enlighten me
idk i'm not a yankoid
clever
okay I overstated it quite a bit but my point is that it was her election to lose after Joe dropped out
During the summer I think , basically right after Biden dropped out
just no, she never had a 20 point advantage. not even close. https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/national
unless youre talking about something else, which in that case plz enlighten me