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Kamala’s Fruitless Pursuit of the Mythical Moderate
Manage episode 448966940 series 2467297
There will be much analysis and innumerable postmortems of what Kamala Harris and her campaign got wrong about the electorate this election.
Already, the trends are becoming clear: She failed to reach Black and Latino men, who flocked to Donald Trump this cycle. She underperformed in cities, typically Democratic strongholds. And she even lagged among younger voters vital to her party’s present and future.
What’s behind this dismal showing? One explanation is Harris’s inability to put forth a distinct agenda that would appeal to disaffected Democrats. Instead, she held steady to the policies of President Joe Biden, despite general voter dissatisfaction and anxiety about the economy and the direction of the country.
“We see Democrats over and over turning to courting this mythical moderate voter,” says senior politics reporter Akela Lacy on this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. “We also see a big failure to account for the rightward shift among young people and figure out how to give young voters a reason to support the Democratic Party.”
Listen to understand what Intercept reporters were hearing at the polls in Georgia and Pennsylvania this week.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
317 episoder
Manage episode 448966940 series 2467297
There will be much analysis and innumerable postmortems of what Kamala Harris and her campaign got wrong about the electorate this election.
Already, the trends are becoming clear: She failed to reach Black and Latino men, who flocked to Donald Trump this cycle. She underperformed in cities, typically Democratic strongholds. And she even lagged among younger voters vital to her party’s present and future.
What’s behind this dismal showing? One explanation is Harris’s inability to put forth a distinct agenda that would appeal to disaffected Democrats. Instead, she held steady to the policies of President Joe Biden, despite general voter dissatisfaction and anxiety about the economy and the direction of the country.
“We see Democrats over and over turning to courting this mythical moderate voter,” says senior politics reporter Akela Lacy on this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. “We also see a big failure to account for the rightward shift among young people and figure out how to give young voters a reason to support the Democratic Party.”
Listen to understand what Intercept reporters were hearing at the polls in Georgia and Pennsylvania this week.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
317 episoder
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