mikegriffith1
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I think these are the top five reasons the Democrats lost the election:
1. Biden should not have immediately endorsed his far-left vice president when he dropped out but should have allowed more-viable candidates to have a chance to contend. Nancy Pelosi recently made the same point. In reality, Biden never should have run for reelection in the first place. This would have enabled the party to have a real primary.
2. Harris should have taken the border crisis seriously, both as an economic threat and a national security threat. She should have apologized for dropping the ball as the border czar. Then, she should have pledged to seal the border and to stop the disastrous catch-and-release policy. And, she should not have used the dishonest argument that Trump is "anti-immigration" and "anti-immigrant." Most people understand that opposition to illegal immigration is not "anti-immigrant."
3. Harris should have ditched the transgender agenda. Even many Democrats, arguably the majority of them, do not agree with allowing biological males to compete in female sports, and do not support allowing teens to start taking puberty blockers, much less allowing teens to get irreversible transgender surgery. Republicans hammered her on the transgender issue because their own polling showed that most Americans disagree with the transgender agenda.
4. Picking Tim Walz was an odd and inexcusable blunder. Walz, an unknown woke leftist, gave her nothing she did not already have. He gave her no new voters, and he came from a very safe blue state. Plus, he comes across as unserious and flaky. Governor Josh Shapiro, a confirmed centrist and a person with solid gravitas, was the obvious pick.
5. Harris should have frankly acknowledged that a solid majority of Americans are worse off now than they were four years ago. Exit polling shows that Trump won an astonishing 81% of the vote of voters who said they are worse off now than they were when Biden took office. Note: Only 24% of those polled said they are better off now than they were four years ago.
1. Biden should not have immediately endorsed his far-left vice president when he dropped out but should have allowed more-viable candidates to have a chance to contend. Nancy Pelosi recently made the same point. In reality, Biden never should have run for reelection in the first place. This would have enabled the party to have a real primary.
2. Harris should have taken the border crisis seriously, both as an economic threat and a national security threat. She should have apologized for dropping the ball as the border czar. Then, she should have pledged to seal the border and to stop the disastrous catch-and-release policy. And, she should not have used the dishonest argument that Trump is "anti-immigration" and "anti-immigrant." Most people understand that opposition to illegal immigration is not "anti-immigrant."
3. Harris should have ditched the transgender agenda. Even many Democrats, arguably the majority of them, do not agree with allowing biological males to compete in female sports, and do not support allowing teens to start taking puberty blockers, much less allowing teens to get irreversible transgender surgery. Republicans hammered her on the transgender issue because their own polling showed that most Americans disagree with the transgender agenda.
4. Picking Tim Walz was an odd and inexcusable blunder. Walz, an unknown woke leftist, gave her nothing she did not already have. He gave her no new voters, and he came from a very safe blue state. Plus, he comes across as unserious and flaky. Governor Josh Shapiro, a confirmed centrist and a person with solid gravitas, was the obvious pick.
5. Harris should have frankly acknowledged that a solid majority of Americans are worse off now than they were four years ago. Exit polling shows that Trump won an astonishing 81% of the vote of voters who said they are worse off now than they were when Biden took office. Note: Only 24% of those polled said they are better off now than they were four years ago.