Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by bertjk on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:16AM
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It would have been pretty silly for Harris to campaign on a Hope and Change™ platform, since that would imply she is doing a very poor job as incumbent.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by xyzsparetimexyz on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:51AM
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Well she lost anyway. Bidens policies were generally unpopular, it would have made sense for her to distance herself from them.
Trump's story is pretty ridiculous, there's no way that his plans on how to fix the economy or the border or the whole department of efficiency thing work anywhere close to as well as he says. Regardless, his demographic believes it.
Kamala's story was a lot weaker, involved a ton of hard truths and concessions about things that people in her base care about such as Gaza. Additionally her story on the border was mostly the same thing as Trump's. If you like the border story, why not go for the guy pushing it harder?
Obama had a pretty good story in 2008 (the whole hope thing). Dems need to get back to that.