The blame game within the Democratic Party has begun. Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are now turning on President Joe Biden and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, blaming the two for her loss in the election against President-elect Donald Trump.
On the morning after the election on Wednesday, Nov. 6, Harris addressed a crowd of her supporters in Washington, D.C. and announced that she had conceded the race to Trump. During her speech, she encouraged her supporters to not lose hope, saying that while the race for the presidency has ended, she has not conceded “the fight that fueled this campaign.”
With Harris’ concession, political analysts, Democratic insiders and regular liberals and supporters of the vice president’s campaign have started pointing fingers in an attempt to find a scapegoat to hold responsible for Trump’s victory.
This election is considered to be a devastating loss to the Democrats, who lost not only the presidency but also the Senate and the House of Representatives – which pollsters thought could flip back to the Democratic Party.
One of the people standing out as prime targets for blame is Biden, with Democrats believing him dropping out far too late deprived the party of being able to democratically decide on a candidate through primaries.
Biden is also being blamed by the party’s left-wing who believe that the Biden administration’s stance on Israel and the Harris campaign’s attempts to appeal to the pro-Israel lobby, to moderate voters and to anti-Trump Republicans were all huge mistakes.
Other Harris supporters have also taken their ire out on Walz for a variety of reasons, including that he is too progressive, too “folksy” and too tainted by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which began in Minneapolis following the death of African American man George Floyd.
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