- The article argues campaigning with Liz Cheney seems to have no effect. Calling it an “electoral fiasco,” especially in the headline, clearly implies that it was detrimental in a significant way.
- The evidence that the rallies were ineffective is comparing Harris’s results against Biden’s. This is terrible analysis. This should be at least a difference-in-difference comparison (the difference in the change vs Biden, using similar counties that were/weren’t visited). Useful evidence that their analysis actually works would be applying it to strategies they think were positive, and showing the relative improvement there.
Anyone who sits here and claims that they were going to vote for Harris, but Liz Cheney showing up with her one time was just a bridge too far to the point where they were willing to let Trump return to power never had an intent of voting for Harris in the first place.
There were too many straws, bricks, pianos, etc. to determine which one finally destroyed that camel.
But dick cheney is a pretty massive weight, especially when the camel is running over the left.
But dick cheney is a pretty massive weight, especially when the camel is running over the left.
The logic just doesn’t make even the least bit of sense.
What you’re telling me is that people were planning on voting for Harris. They liked Harris’ policies and knew what a Trump presidency would bring. But because Liz Cheney – a woman, remember, who sacrificed her own standing in the Party and torpedoed her own political career in order to stand up to Trump and try to give legitimacy to the J6 hearings – showed up to one of her rallies and endorsed her, that was such an insult and affront to them on a personal level that they were willing to sit at home in protest and hand the country over to Trump. That doesn’t even pass the smell test. Those people were never going to vote for Harris anyway. Cheney was just a convenient excuse.
You don’t have to like Liz Cheney. God knows I don’t agree with her on a single political issue. But Liz Cheney wasn’t running for office. Liz Cheney is a far-right nutjob, but even she’s giving MAGA the side-eye. It’s a prime example of winning the battle but losing the war. Sometimes, you have to look at the bigger picture, and in some battles, you need to accept that the enemy of your enemy sometimes really is your friend, if only for a little while.
It’s not like Harris picked Cheney for VP or something.
Did you read the article? And if so, was it before or after constructing your straw man?
Not the OP, but I started reading it, and the first sentence is starting the bullshit already.
Conservatives backed Trump by bigger percentages than in 2020.
There were 1 million more votes for Trump than in 2020, while there were 14 million fewer votes for Harris compared to Biden. So while it’s technically true it’s ignoring the damned elephant in the room. 13 million people didn’t sit out this election or switch sides because of Liz Cheney.
If the very first sentence is already this disingenuous, the rest of the article isn’t even worth wasting my time.
The followup is that sitting with Cheney wasted time that could have been spent reaching those 14M instead of wasting it on people who were never going to vote Harris.
14 million isn’t something Harris could do on her own. They left because the Dem establishment gave no reason to show they cared about people. While the Republican were saying “it’s hard, we’ll fix it” the Dems kept insisting “it’s actually not that bad”.
Obviously the Reps “fix” will be worse, but the Dems just stuck their head in the sand and ignored everything the average American needs to get by on a daily basis. It’s why 14 million voters abandoned them. 1 million went to Trump, the other 13 million gave up.
They left because the Dem establishment gave no reason to show they cared about people
Maybe not hanging around with Liz Cheney would be a start on that.
Your numbers are a bit off, counting votes is still happening. We are currently at 97%. Trump is up about 1.6 million more votes than 2020 and Harris is down about 8.4 million votes from Biden 2020.
Claiming Liz Cheney is responsible for 13 million people not voting is the bullshit.
2020 had the highest voter turnout ever because of the pandemic.
Billionaires were doing things like buying votes to avoid being taxed by Kamala.
Republicans convinced many Americans that Biden and his “radical left wing” policies were responsible for inflation.
Enemy nations like China and Russia favored Trump and used their bot farms accordingly.
No one I know that voted irl ever even cared about Liz Cheney.
The idea that Liz Cheney could sway 13 million votes is ridiculous.
That ain’t a strawman. It’s calling a spade a spade.
Yup. All the bad actors that don’t want American politicians reaching across the aisles. They will pretend they were totally gonna vote but now they have to let facism win to take the moral high ground.
No she wasn’t. She was an excellent symbol that even crazy, hard-line conservatives know trump is insane.
Kamala lost because she did what Democrats always do: ignore progressives and go hard right. If she had played to the god damn left like she should have, Liz Cheney would give that some real depth.
It still did, but less, due to the lack of going left. Liz didn’t cost anybody shit.
You know you’re contradicting yourself, right?
Actively embracing the daughter with identical politics of Dick Cheney IS going hard right.
It may say “sane Republicans oppose Trump”, but it also says “we are so obsessed with winning over the Right that we’ll endorse people who are against everything we pretend to believe in while ignoring the Left that we’re pretending to represent”
It didn’t “add depth”, it made obvious their hypocrisy and lack of regard for policy that affects the lives of regular people more than those of themselves and their owner donors.
Dems: Republicans are Nazis
Also Dems: we’re campaigning with Republicans!
Two points:
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all Nazis are fascists but not all fascists are Nazis. Nazis liked public works projects and pretending to be socialists, both of which are anathema to the American Fascist Party
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The ones campaigning with Republicans stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the fact that Republicans are fascists.
Other than the campaigning with the politically identical daughter of a war criminal, admitting that it consists of giving concessions to fascists is SUPER inconvenient for the party pretending that “bipartisanship” is the greatest political virtue.
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I mentioned this in a comment last week and was called a sexist for not supporting women, because I dared to say a Cheney endorsement was bad for Dems.
Honestly, running a woman was bad for dems. The majority of voters in this country clearly hate women.
The lengths centrists will go to in order to avoid admitting that moving to the right has failed.
I think both are true.
Tell me again what Biden did in 2020? And what was the result?
Oh, you mean to tell me that Biden isn’t the most progressive president since FDR? You mean that was always a filthy lie?
He ran as a sane, competent administrator in the middle of a global pandemic, the response to which had been botched by his predecessor.
You just got a very clear demonstration that the “just move to the right!” wing of the party has hit a wall.
All those Republican dog whistles they kept blowing, Boasting about all those Republican endorsements while shifting the party hard to the right only got them 5% of the Republican vote and cause them to lose the election. Even paying for a bunch of celebrity endorsements didn’t help them. They are a joke of a party and need to be abandoned.
No. Fucking. Shit.
In a long line of idiotic missteps and stupid fucking decisions, this was up there with every other contending for first place in an endless line of mistakes.
I’m done with this “oopsie! We made a mistake” bullshit. The DNC can fuck off. They don’t represent me. Liz Cheney and her ghoul of a father even less-so.
God damn this moronic timeline.
Duh. We said that on day 0 of it happening.
Granted, when saying that we were all down-voted to oblivion by Blue MAGA apologists who “knew better” and were telling us that voters just needed accept what the Democrats were serving, but then, here we are. Living the outcome of a strategy that directly contributed to the downfall of the idea of western Liberal Democracy.
The brain worm that ate NPR liberals brains on the issue of “strategic voting”, as if they had a strategic thought in their head, needs to routed out and crushed in the dirt.
I really doubt this had anything to do with it. Why would dems give a shit if Cheney was like “for gods sake vote for anyone but Trump - at least Kamala is sane”?
A lot of people are like “if someone as evil as Cheney is endorsing Harris that’s not a good sign, and if Harris is actively bringing her on stage and talking about how great she is that’s DEFINITELY not a good sign”
