[throwaway902984]

You are so correct in your first statement yet imply something in your second I think is so incorrect in a wider context that it strikes me like whiplash.

Paying lip service but not addressing that friction was a significant part of what killed the Harris campaign, IMO.

[johnnyanmac]

well yes. That's the big issue. Trump didn't get more votes, Harris got drastically less than Biden. People didn't come out.

She had a bad hand needing to start out 6 months into an election cycle, and she played it poorly to boot. That's why this "we need to appeal to moderates/right wing" narrative is so frustrating. That's exactly what Harris did by trying to downplay Palestine/defend Israel and refusing to talk about the tensions in the job market. She established herself as "more of the same". That doesn't win votes in increasingly bad times.

[temp8830]

Where "the same" meant "who knows who's actually running the country". Let's at least be honest about that part.