After Kamala Harris’s stinging defeat to Donald Trump, the Democrats find themselves in disarray, with everyone scrambling to pin the blame on someone else. Harris was hastily pushed forward as the nominee a mere three months before Election Day, following a behind-the-scenes Democratic maneuver to elbow President Joe Biden out. Predictably, the blame game has kicked into high gear, with the Biden and Harris camps each eager to throw the other under the bus. According to a recent Axios report, aides from both teams have been trading barbs, each pointing fingers for the disastrous outcome.
With Trump’s victory still fresh, it seems the Harris team is dead-set on deflecting accountability, with insiders insisting the campaign was “nearly flawless.” Apparently, Biden’s unpopularity and his team’s clumsy strategy were the real culprits, if you ask Harris’s advisors. However, the final numbers don’t lie—Trump took a commanding 312 electoral votes and even clinched the popular vote, a first for a Republican since 2004. Yet, amid all the finger-pointing, what’s becoming clear is that the Democrats’ approach to “democracy” wasn’t so democratic after all. Harris, after all, didn’t win a single primary vote for the nomination; she was hand-picked by the party, bypassing the very voters they claim to champion.
The Harris camp, perhaps unsurprisingly, isn’t short on excuses. Harris’s fundraising was substantial, outpacing even Trump, yet she somehow ended up with a campaign riddled with debt. One former Biden staffer expressed disbelief, wondering aloud how anyone could spend $1 billion and still lose so spectacularly. Meanwhile, others on the Harris team are now lamenting the “overconfident leadership” that sold them on a close race when, in reality, the results were anything but.
Then there’s the peculiar gripe about Harris’s strategy regarding Biden. Despite Biden’s tendency to deliver unhelpful gaffes, some within his camp apparently wanted him to be more visible on the campaign trail. Harris’s team opted to sideline him, presumably to avoid any further PR disasters, only to face criticism from Biden loyalists post-defeat. The irony? Biden’s off-the-cuff comments about Trump supporters being “garbage” sparked enough backlash to make one wonder if he was deliberately sabotaging his running mate’s campaign.
When it comes to the actual issues, Harris’s positions—or lack thereof—certainly didn’t do her any favors. Her policy proposals veered from pandering attempts to score votes with minority groups to impractical plans like price controls, with some ideas even cribbed from Trump or JD Vance. Meanwhile, her attention was often more on cultural hot buttons, like abortion, rather than addressing the Biden administration’s glaring policy missteps on the economy, inflation, and immigration—the same administration in which she played a key role.
As the dust settles, it’s obvious that the Democrats’ latest internal drama is more than just sour grapes over a lost election. It’s a reflection of a party deeply out of touch, pushing a candidate with no primary support and a shaky grasp on policy into the national spotlight, then scrambling to find someone to blame when the inevitable loss came. If this is the Democrats’ idea of a winning strategy, they might be in for a rough few years ahead.
