Happy birthday to the next president of the United States!

Would venture to say her political career is over. Both Senate seats in California will be occupied by incumbents for a while, and Eleni Kounalakis has a head start on the 2026 Gubernatorial election.

Worst Democratic presidential candidate since Mike Dukakis. Kerry kept it closer in the electoral count & Hillary at least won the popular vote.

Also, maybe the D establishment shouldn't have switched Biden out with her like they did considering she flopped hard in the 2020 primaries and had no real appeal to any voters. That obviously translated over into the general election 4 years later. Hindsight is, of course, 20/20 though.

Personally I think it has more to do with Trump's strength as a candidate than any particular weakness by Harris. I wouldn't say Harris was a great general election candidate by any means, but given the situation she was thrown in with 3 months to go it was always an uphill battle once her perception as "generic Democrat" faded. A lot of people, Republicans included, have been telling themselves Trump is a weak candidate just because he has a habit of getting caught up in media frenzies. But regular people don't care about that. The fact people gravitate towards him because of his policies, charisma, political incorrectness or what have you, is a unique strength that no prominent Democrat has.

Trump isn't some unbeatable juggernaut, Biden proved that 4 years ago. Harris lacked charisma and frankly seemed like a bit of an intellectual lightweight and unpresidential with her word salads and constantly repeating the same talking points her staffers told her to repeat. She also tried to pull an Obama and naively billed herself as the "change candidate" when nobody but the most partisan of partisan Dems would have bought that. She also didn't distance herself from Biden at all so that shtick fell even more flat with voters. Had she not been so robotic and had her campaign not been so tone-deaf she would have done better. But maybe regular people didn't care about all that, I don't know.

My mantra is, The winner of the presidential general election is the candidate who would win a race for Prom King. Except for 2020, that simple rule predicts the outcome of every presidential election for the last 50 years at least. The mantra is inherently sexist, of course, and we will never know the degree to which misogyny was a factor in this election, but I expect Democrats will be hesitant to nominate another woman for the foreseeable future.

Harris lacked charisma and frankly seemed like a bit of an intellectual lightweight and unpresidential with her word salads and constantly repeating the same talking points her staffers told her to repeat. This illustrates the very different bars each candidate needed to cross. Trump was incompetent as president (according to many from his cabinet / national security team) and his stump speeches make no sense at all. Harris repeated same stump speech each time, which is the normal thing candidates do to reinforce a simple message for voters.

Harris repeated same stump speech each time, which is the normal thing candidates do to reinforce a simple message for voters. The problem with that is that her simple message was tone-deaf and not in line with how voters were thinking. We can clearly see that in the results. And while a lot of Trump's speeches were rambly and hard to listen to, he was clearly speaking from the heart and not reading off a piece of paper his staffers gave him, which resonates with voters at least somewhat.

Trump was not strong as a candidate. Any insinuation he is is fucking brain dead. He is only treated as a serious force because the Media Needs a Narrative. American's are sick of the status quo, and when the Dems prevented themselves from being that by fucking over Bernie twice, they allowed Trump Back in.

I disagree, Trump ran a brilliant campaign, countering every Harris move with Machiavellian intelligence that forced Harris into mistake after mistake, focusing his narrative on issues that matter the very most to blue collar America.

I disagree, Trump ran a brilliant campaign, countering every Harris move with Machiavellian intelligence that forced Harris into mistake after mistake, focusing his narrative on issues that matter the very most to blue collar America. There is no way u actually believe that right? That Dementia Don tricked Harris into being a exactly what she has always been; an elitist technocratic liberal who can never address the needs of people because she just buys into every Right-Wing Neoliberal Framing on things like economics and immigration

I liked Harris because she was on my team but I've always liked Trump and never understood why conservatives thought he "triggered" us. He is a New York liberal who wears makeup after all. I like his politics for example many socialist countries have tariffs

Imagine admitting you always liked a guy who was friends with a Child Sex Trafficker and thinking thats normal.

Trump infiltrated Jeffrey Epstein's inner circle in order to be able to arrest him once he became President so he could execute him before the Biden and Clinton crime families could exonerate him. That's also why he had to pretend to want to have sex with his daughter.

The Democrats should've allowed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and whomever else would've subsequently entered the race, to run in a free & fair primary. If that had happened, I'm not sure whom the President-elect would be...but that person would probably be the Democratic nominee (instead of Donald Trump.) What can I say? You guys shot yourselves in the foot repeatedly, until the revolver was just goin' click, click over and over again. There's no way, from the perspective of January 1st, 2023, that Trump should've won this thing. But Democrats insisted on doing everything they could think of to alienate 3/4ths of the electorate. The main reason I was for DeSantis, was that I really didn't want to lose this election. I still can't believe nominating Trump, and not-losing, was actually an option in 2024. Not if we'd faced a competent, non-delusional party. We couldn't have overcome that hurdle. Then we would've got our asses handed to us, as most of the smarter people on my side had assumed was going to happen this year, if we couldn't prevent the well-meaning yokels from nominating Trump a third time. Well, we were wrong. But we weren't as wrong some people I could mention....

Imagine admitting you always liked a guy who was friends with a Child Sex Trafficker and thinking thats normal. Yes, Epstein was just a social recluse that Trump knew, 'cause Trump digs rape, or whatever. Epstein didn't have an office at Harvard and a freakin' network of associates, left, right, and center, and across finance, tech, entertainment, and intersecting with intelligence agency personnel. Oh no. He was just some guy who knew Doland Trump, and then went on to not kill himself.

Trump infiltrated Jeffrey Epstein's inner circle in order to be able to arrest him once he became President... I can't believe THIS is the crap some people expect me to be onboard with, however. This is fiction, bro. Grow up.

Yes, Epstein was just a social recluse that Trump knew, 'cause Trump digs rape, or whatever. Epstein didn't have an office at Harvard and a freakin' network of associates, left, right, and center, and across finance, tech, entertainment, and intersecting with intelligence agency personnel. Oh no. He was just some guy who knew Doland Trump, and then went on to not kill himself. Is that supposed to be a LE EPIC PWN? "Look Epstein had links to: Industry you hate, Industry you hate, Industry you hate AND Industry you hate. So its OK for Trump and him to be friends" What? There's only one person on the Left who is even remotely associated with Epstein. And guess what, Fuck Chomsky too. Never liked him before, even if I did, guess what: that link is a dealbreaker.

Her political career is over. No woman can beat Donald Trump for the presidency, but that doesn't mean the presidency is womanproof. She ran a very crappy campaign and her record of being very liberal didn't help her either.

I can't believe THIS is the crap some people expect me to be onboard with, however. This is fiction, bro. Grow up. I will concede that you are more of an expert in sex trafficking than I am but I am firm in my beliefs.

There's only one person on the Left who is even remotely associated with Epstein. I can dig up names of prominent people, people who've held fund raisers for Democratic presidents and the like, who were close to Epstein. Epstein existence was not a partisan issue. His existence reflected the rot that infests our ruling class as a whole, but just those sections of it associated with one political party, or the other.

I will concede that you are more of an expert in sex trafficking than I am... Is there a reason you're such a loathsome worm?

I am sorry to offend and i might have been mistaken your post history just made it seem like you were someone who trafficked in the sex trade. I did not mean this in a slanderous way sex work/slavery is in fact the oldest profession. in either case your history with regards to trafficking should not distract us from this amazing political moment that we are living through

I can dig up names of prominent people, people who've held fund raisers for Democratic presidents and the like, who were close to Epstein. Epstein existence was not a partisan issue. His existence reflected the rot that infests our ruling class as a whole, but just those sections of it associated with one political party, or the other. Ok cool.....that doesn't acknowledge the point I made AT ALL:There's only one person on the Left who is even remotely associated with Epstein. Which is a FACT that remains undisputed. "hE kNeW dEmOcRaTs"...wow, the right wing capitalist was friends with right wing capitalists, is that supposed to be an OWN? The insinuation that the Democratic Party itself in any way shape or form is representative of the Left is LAUGHABLE. We are especially referring to the Democratic Party of the Late 90s/Early 2000s which is when the Democrats took a MASSIVE RIGHTWARD SHIFT. So again, only 1 Leftist I know that's been to the Epstein parties. Imma guess I have to spell it out for you THE RULING CLASS IS RIGHT WING!!!!!!. The Right wing seeks to hold up the status quo, particularly via their upholding of the worldwide economic system of ₵₳₱I₸₳₺I$₼, meanwhile the Left seeks to oppose that via their challenging of Social Hierarchies. So...they don't get invited to the rich guys pedophile jet, because they are HATED by the ruling class. Why would Epstein invite them to his parties, and why would they accept? All the industries you described that Epstein had connections to: ALL RIGHT WING CAPITALISTS The ruling class that palled around with him: ALL RIGHT WING CAPITALISTS The only guy who was Left Wing that had associations with Epstein was Chomsky, and fuck him too IDGAF. Have evidence to the contrary, I'd love to hear it. Keep in mind Again LEFT≠Random Ass Democrats