The Daily Populous Saturday May 10th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Winter_Victory_4793

Harris also failed to distance herself from what was unpopular about the Biden administration. The administration never took responsibility for inflation or put forth a convincing plan to curb high prices. Harris was part of that collective error. Even worse, she never distanced herself from Biden’s foreign policy, especially his indefensible enabling of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. (One postelection poll showed that anger over Gaza may have contributed to many Biden 2020 voters’ decision to stay home in 2024.)

Perhaps worst of all, Harris has shown no real leadership during the second Trump administration, when the Democratic Party has been sorely in need of it. These recent speeches at high-dollar benefits are the first anyone has heard from her in a while. (In April she attended a summit on Black women leadership at a Ritz-Carlton in Orange County, California, and in March an AI conference in Las Vegas.) Sure, it was heartening that, in her remarks at the Emerge gala, she praised the courage of figures like Representatives Maxwell Frost, Jasmine Crockett, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen—but why hasn’t she been among them?

The next party leader should not come from the social circles of the coastal superrich, especially not when there are others doing the important work of visibly talking to people in red states, like Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez; traveling to El Salvador to free the unjustly imprisoned, like Van Hollen and some members of Congress; disrupting business as usual, like Senator Cory Booker; or simply refusing to go into hiding after a crushing election defeat, like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’s wrongly sidelined veep candidate, who has been speaking out against Trumpism for months.

MaizeNBlueWaffle on May 10th, 2025 at 13:52 UTC »

> One reason Harris lost was that she failed to embrace what was sometimes popular about her own administration: investing in American jobs (the CHIPS Act, among others), capitalist-friendly pro-climate policy (the Inflation Reduction Act and aggressive agency-level regulation of pollutants); making people’s lives better and more economically stable (child tax credits and countless pandemic-era measures). Harris didn’t talk much about any of that during the campaign.

Look, I don’t think Harris should run again, but it’s abundantly clear in commentary like this that the author did not pay attention to the Harris campaign. She talked about these things frequently to the point where it actually seemed repetitive. It’s just that voters frankly do not give a shit about that stuff

dennis-w220 on May 10th, 2025 at 06:34 UTC »

Hell NO. I voted for her, but Dems need a new candidate.

KazeNilrem on May 10th, 2025 at 06:15 UTC »

Although I do think she would have been a good president. I do not think she should run again. We are at an impasse, and it is incredibly important to get someone to run that will win. She did not win, she would have done so much better than trump. But at the end of the day, what matters most is who stands the best chance of winning. And I am sorry, given she has loss once already, I do not think we (as in the US) can risk having her run again.

We need people who will win, period.