The chance that liberals will get behind another White House bid from former Vice President Kamala Harris is getting weaker by the day.
In the latest demonstration that she is being abandoned, the progressive group RootsAction on Friday released its “autopsy” of the 2024 election, concluding that the Harris campaign dug its own grave by coddling big donors and shunning the liberal base in favor of reaching out to unreachable Republicans.
In its 28-page report, RootsAction blamed “a multitude of sins” from Harris, former President Joe Biden, and the Democratic Party for the loss.
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The “biggest failure” it cited was Harris receiving 6.8 million fewer votes than Biden in his 2020 victory over President Donald Trump.
“This was a preventable disaster, but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young and progressive voters,” said Christoper Cook, the author of the report.
“Harris lost after running a campaign that vacillated or maintained status quo positions on key issues,” he wrote.
The anti-Trump group said it produced the autopsy because the Democratic Party hasn’t, and it is concerned that without a full vetting, the party is destined to lose again in 2028.
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“With the Democratic Party still unwilling or unable to adequately assess their failures in 2024, this report provides a necessary antidote to that inaction,” said Sam Rosenthal, the political director of RootsAction.
The former vice president, however, is deaf to the anti-Harris calls. Today, for example, she told “supporters” of her plans to start a national political action committee to take Trump on. She gave it a simplistic name, “Fight for the People PAC.”
The report lists several reasons for the 2024 loss, but puts a lot of the blame on Harris for sticking to the Biden model, refusing to address voter anxiety on the economy, and wooing Republicans.
“Harris’s campaign was dramatically out of step with many voters’ day-to-day realities. While Harris and her team courted suburban moderates and Republicans who were purportedly frustrated or disgusted with Trump, the campaign largely ignored working-class voters both in their outreach and their messaging,” it said.
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The report further added:
“The Harris campaign’s loss of 6.8 million Biden voters can be linked to three major factors we examine in this report: 1) loss of working-class voters, due to inflation stresses and struggles, combined with Harris campaign decisions to prioritize anti-Trump messaging and winning Republican swing voters rather than economic populist messages that could have won more working-class voters; 2) the Harris campaign’s woeful refusal to shift messaging or even signal a potential policy shift on Israel and Gaza; and 3) the Harris campaign’s larger failure to distinguish itself from an unpopular incumbent president and inspire voters.”
