Summary

Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisā€™s defeat, with many votersā€”often womenā€”expressing doubts about whether ā€œAmerica is ready for a female president.ā€

Some said they ā€œcouldnā€™t see her in the chair,ā€ or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, ā€œyou donā€™t see women building skyscrapers.ā€ Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.

Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.

Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenā€™s administration.

Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpā€™s unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisā€™s campaign efforts.

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    4 days ago

    still stuck on ā€œtrump is worseā€ instead of dnc has become so bad that trump didnā€™t matter.

    say that the mayor election is between two criminal, one of them has scammed you of your life savings and killed your family & neighbours in front of your eyes and the other candidate is said to be even worse. are you going to vote for first candidate or plan of shooting him ?

    ā€œheld to an infinitely higher standardsā€, ā€œgenocide even harderā€, ā€œhappens to be a womanā€, ā€œmake the economy worseā€, ā€œobama was a flukeā€, ā€œbernie & aoc areĀ wildlyĀ unpopular outside of that.ā€

    Tell me which one of these is wrong.

    all of them

    • she has no standards, she was a corrupt cop who rose in dnc for her sucking upto megadonors.

    • asking to ignore a genocide is enough to loose all credibility. it only infuriates people when they ask to reward them for burning kids alive in hospitals. whatā€™s trump gonna do reincarnate the gaza population and kill them again ?

    • ā€œhappens to be a womanā€ : who had happily jailed single moms and supports israel killing women for aipac money. its the same excuse as pedophile asking for respect because he is a priest.

    she is a entitled hypocrite who has never struggled as black or woman and lived among the elite enabling their corruption same as the white woman hillary. biden would have been the same but he likely got the pass because of being part of obama admin, his son dying and covid mismanagement by trump.

    those still stuck on defending dnc needs to understand in two party system we need to have opposite options else we are basically begging to continue to get trodden by the oligarchs. ā€œthe trump is worseā€, ā€œharder genocideā€ just make people loose faith in the system and sit it out.

    i honestly wont be surprised if dnc puts token candidates so they can divert any criticism and reforms by blaming their loss on racism and sexism just like israel uses antisemitism.