CRASH & BURN
Infighting Democrats at each other’s throats after Kamala Harris campaign spent $10million every day…and STILL lost
Top bosses at Harris' team reportedly asked staff not to criticise their campaign in front of media
DEJECTED Democrats have been at each other's throats over Kamala Harris' star-studded election campaign that spent nearly $10 million every day only to face a crushing defeat.
Top Dems are now drawing their daggers out as they blame each other in private for the party's disastrous results.
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A decisive win by Donald Trump and his Republican campaign has sent shockwaves across the the Democratic party, leaving members in a complete meltdown.
One faction of the party that campaigned for Biden is now blaming Harris and her team for the loss.
A former Biden staffer slammed Harris saying: ""How did [Harris] spend $1 billion and not win? What the f***?"
Meanwhile, Harris' team launched attacks on Biden's team that previously campaigned for him before he dropped out of the presidential race earlier this year.
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One person involved with Harris' team told Axios: "The 107-day Harris campaign was nearly flawless. The Biden campaign that preceded it was the opposite."
Whilke one member rased fingers at top dem mebners Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, saying: "Mike and Steve will have a lot to answer for — having him run" for re-election at 80 years old.
Another person involved in the vice president's campaign said the "odds were against us", referring to Biden's extremely low approving rate prior to him ditching the race.
Responding to the criticism a Biden aide told Axios: "There are a wide range of advisers [Biden] consulted about the campaign, who agreed on the merits of running — like the party did after the best midterm wins for a new president in over 60 years ... No one 'has' the president do anything."
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Biden staffers dismissed the Harris team's criticisms as making excuses for the vice president's failures:
Another Bien aide told the media house: "Anyone criticizing the vice president's campaign is at odds with President Biden."
Meanwhile, reports have emerged suggesting top bosses at Harris' campaign reportedly asked staff not to criticise that campaign in front of the media.
'OUT OF TOUCH'
chose not to speak to supporters on election night but vowed to continue fighting in her speech to her distraught supporters at Howard University in Washington DC yesterday.
She was slammed as being ";out of touch" by a former Obama aide for wheeling out her millionaire celebrity pals to perform on the final campaign day.
And now, the Democrats seem to have been left in shambles as a furious blame game has erupted in and outside the party.
From Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic representatives to major Hollywood A-listers, and even Kamala's own voters, everyone seems to be getting a piece of the blue rage.
The distraught Dems have turned on George Clooney after the actor requested Joe Biden resign before Trump's election triumph.
Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, has been heavily criticized for his influence during the election.
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In a notable July op-ed for the New York Times, the 63-year-old actor from Ocean's Eleven urged Biden, 81, to get out of the race for president.
"We are not going to win in November with this president," he wrote.
Later, when Biden declared he would step down on July 21, leaving Kamala Harris to run a 107-day campaign to attempt to defeat Trump, Clooney commended him for being "selfless."
But Trump's incredible return to the White House on Wednesday marked the end of that campaign.
Since Tuesday, Democrats have attempted to place the blame on Clooney for urging Biden to withdraw from the presidential contest months earlier.
Journalist Joshua Hartley uploaded a screenshot of Clooney's op-ed piece and quipped, "Thank you George Clooney."
Another Democrat voter tweeted, "Trump should not forget to thank the Hollywood celebrities. Especially George Clooney."
A third posted on X, "I blame George Clooney he said no more money... and now look...";
Nancy Pelosi was also put on the naughty list by the Democrats, as people surrounding Joe Biden blamed her for Harris' election loss, the reports.
Biden confidants told top White House reporters last night that they blame the former speaker of the house for his withdrawal from the campaign.
The president himself, according to sources, "was more deeply unpopular than anyone grasped," but there was also a sense of betrayal among his supporters, CNN senior White House correspondent .
While some Democrat insiders blamed every demographic imaginable, others accused Tim Walz of being too folksy, too left-wing, and too tainted by the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Van Jones, a veteran political analyst and a long-term supporter of the Democrats, said her "star-studded" campaign will make working-class voters feel isolated.
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The expert said that the last few events in the Harris campaign - filled with megastars like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Oprah Winfrey - felt eerily similar to the final days of Hillary Clinton’s failed White House bid in 2016.
She was slammed as being "out of touch" by a former Obama aide for wheeling out her millionaire celebrity pals to perform on the final campaign day.
Democrats 'detached from reality', expert says
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DEMOCRATS have been left stunned by their huge election defeat and have proved just how dangerously detached from reality they are, an expert says.
Dr Alan Mendoza told The Sun that Kamala Harris and her downed Dems miserably lost out to Donald Trump after heavily underestimating voters' wants and needs.
The executive director for the think tank Henry Jackson Society, said the shock factor of the dismal failure can be linked back to a few crucial errors by the Harris administration.
"They've lost connection with the American mainstream," he told The Sun.
"I think there was just a lack of understanding of what the issues on the ground were.
"Four years of Democratic Presidential rule has not made Americans think that the party is capable of presiding over great success.
"If you looked at the exit polls huge numbers of people expressed dissatisfaction with what had happened.
"If your big issues are immigration and the economy and you're talking about reproductive rights then you're not connecting with the voters on the right sense.
"So I think nationally, Democrats are going to look at this election and go 'how do we rebuild from here? What do we need to do in order to reconnect that American mainstream that clearly we've lost.'"
The other reason Mendoza says the Democrats failed so miserably is due to underestimating Trump's national appeal.
Many on the Left saw the Republican as weak opposition due to his legal battles since losing out to Joe Biden in 2020.
Harris was seen as the safe option by many voters whereas Trump was regarded as a "risk."
This attitude left the Democrats severely underestimating the power that Trump commands on the average American.
"The left have always underestimated Donald Trump. They've always thought this guy shouldn't be allowed to win," he said.
"As a result of it they got sucker punched in 2016, and they got sucker punched again today.
"What they needed to do was campaign effectively against him and connect with the American people to make them convinced that he shouldn't win and instead they didn't do that."
Mendoza added that the past few weeks - including last night - is likely to have riled up Biden.
He said: "I think he's still annoyed he wasn't the candidate, I think there's a part of him that will feel vindicated by Kamala Harris' defeat.
"He will be thinking, I told them, only I could beat Donald Trump."
He also warned the Dems that casting the senior politician aside will only do them more harm in the long run.
"Biden's always been gaffe prone, and he was always likely to create a gaffe or two even if he wasn't the candidate," Mendoza said.
"Biden's an easy scapegoat, but I think it'd be a foolish one because the Democrats lost for more than just Joe Biden.
"They lost because they hadn't delivered for over four years and that's not necessarily Biden's fault.
"The worst thing Democrats could do from their perspective would be to blame Biden, and then pivot to the left."
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