{"id":7645,"date":"2025-12-01T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:55:21","slug":"kamala-harris-with-tears-in-her-eyes-makes-a-sad-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7645","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris, with tears in her eyes, makes a sad announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris\u2019 post-election moment was so raw and unfiltered that even her closest allies struggled to soften it. After her loss to President-elect Donald Trump, the noise around her campaign split sharply into two camps: those insisting that Joe Biden\u2019s late withdrawal sabotaged her chances, and those arguing that this excuse was nothing more than denial packaged as political analysis. But according to several former staffers, the truth was far less flattering \u2014 they say the campaign misread the political terrain from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Harris entered the race late. But her team behaved as if the country had simply been waiting for her to show up. They approached her candidacy like an extension of an already-established Democratic machine rather than a fresh campaign requiring a fresh plan. When the polling tightened and momentum began slipping away, the internal search for someone to blame kicked in. Yet for the people who actually worked inside the operation, the idea that Biden\u2019s timing was the reason for the loss felt \u201cdetached from reality.\u201d Their view was blunt: the campaign lost because it failed to understand the voters it needed most.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor and someone who has known Harris both personally and politically since the 1990s, didn\u2019t sugarcoat a single thing. His critique was sharp \u2014 the critique of someone who had watched countless campaigns rise and fall. In his view, the Harris campaign didn\u2019t just make tactical mistakes; they fundamentally failed to learn from history. He pointed directly to Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss and argued that the campaign refused to confront the most uncomfortable question of all: Is America actually ready to elect a woman as president? Instead of facing that head-on, they brushed past it, assuming that enthusiasm alone could bulldoze political reality.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris\u2019 post-election moment was so raw and unfiltered that even her closest allies struggled to soften it. After her loss to President-elect Donald Trump, the noise around her campaign split sharply into two&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}