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This is the president who has been the only person [who] has been able to beat Donald Trump.”
Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, pushed back on the
I'll give you a little secret, he hates her, he can't stand her
They resurrected video of Trump declaring during the September 10 presidential debate
I said you know this guy's starting to look sharper,
he told the crowdIt is very clear that Kamala Harris's association with Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris administration hurt her,
Roth Smith said
People went on record saying all sorts of things on the advice of activists, advocates, pundits, and sometimes pollsters, that catered to the left-wing of the party, the base of the party,
Roth Smith saidIn general, for a Democratic candidate running in this environment, I think that would be challenging,
Doug Sosnik, a longtime advisor to Bill Clinton, told Business InsiderWould you say you and your family are better off now than you were four years ago?"
A pre-election Gallup Poll showed how dour Americans' moods were when asked the questionIt was a historic victory, and it was a complete and utter repudiation of both Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's platform and positions,
Ryan Ryan Williams, who worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, told Business Insider
Harris was dealt a really bad hand. Some of it was Biden’s making and some maybe not,
said Bennett, who served as an aide to Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton administration
There is not a thing that comes to mind,
Harris said, giving the Trump campaign a sound bite it replayed through Election Day
The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden,
said Andrew Yang, who ran against Biden in 2020 for the Democratic nomination and endorsed Harris’ unsuccessful run
Maybe in 20 or 30 years, history will remember Biden for some of these achievements,
said Thom Reilly, co-director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State UniversityWill the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”
the Vermont independent said
You could not have run a better campaign in that short period of time,
Reid said
[I]t was necessary for the Democratic nominee to separate him or herself from an unpopular incumbent, as much as we love Joe Biden,
Moulton told PoliticoIt 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 statementWe ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,
one unnamed Harris aide told PoliticoYou can't really run away from the president who chooses you,
Simmons told the BBC
Some of us spent years warning Dems to take working-class politics more seriously and to not tout neocons,
Sirota posted on X, formerly TwitterThat 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."
Li told Fox News