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You could not have run a better campaign in that short period of time,
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,
Sanders said in a statement [I]t was necessary for the Democratic nominee to separate him or herself from an unpopular incumbent, as much as we love Joe Biden,
That was the opener for her to show Americans that she's going to get tough on the border, that she's going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation. That was her chance."
We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,
one unnamed Harris aide told Politico Some of us spent years warning Dems to take working-class politics more seriously and to not tout neocons,
Sirota posted on X, formerly Twitter You can't really run away from the president who chooses you,
And on both of those, she had to get involved. She couldn’t push it off,
And you can be supportive of someone and still say, ‘I’m something different. I don’t look like him. I don’t sound like him. We have complementary points of view, but they’re not identical,
Was she loyal? Absolutely. Did it hurt her in the campaign? Absolutely,
Luntz said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday She's been a tremendous partner and public servant full of integrity, courage, and character,
It's okay, we'll come back in '28!"
Now the Democratic Party will say It was the best decision I made. Her story represents the best of America’s story. And as she made clear today, I have no doubt that she’ll continue writing that story,
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for,
When a woman of color is running for that job, it is completely upending all the stereotypes about who can lead, and she had less than 200 days to do that,
I just thought that the other choice was so despicable that she was really going to have a chance, especially not campaigning very heavily on the fact that she was a woman,
When you look at the exit poll, what is the issue that was most important? It was the economy and people feeling like they couldn’t make ends meet and that inflation was having a negative impact on their lives,
said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University There is this educational divide in this country which has become much more pronounced in terms of voting behavior,
said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research, who conducted the final NBC News poll before the election with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies I’m a single mom who’s got a daughter who’s full-time, and groceries are hard. Gas is hard. Things are expensive,
The challenge Kamala Harris had was while she was not Joe Biden, she is Joe Biden’s vice president, and trying to unhook herself from that when the president himself had such a high disapproval rate was really difficult,