DEFEATED Democrats have begun to bicker over who’s to blame for Kamala Harris’ loss as they launched a desperate post-election inquest into the party’s disaster.
The Vice President last night conceded the 2024 election after Republican strongman Donald Trump’s crushing victory.
A shambled Democratic party is now trying to find who’s to blame for Kamala Harris’ election defeat[/caption]
Movie star George Clooney was one of the first ones to take the blame after requesting Joe Biden resign in an op-ed[/caption]
California rep Nancy Pelosi also made to the Democratic ‘naughty list’ and was blamed for Harris’ election loss[/caption]
Harris chose not to speak to supporters on election night, but yesterday vowed to continue fighting in her speech to her distraught supporters at Howard University, in DC.
And now, the Democrats seem to have been left in shambles as a furious blame game has erupted in and outside the party.
From US reps to major Hollywood A-listers, everyone seems to be getting a piece of the blue rage.
The distraught Dems have turned on George Clooney after the actor requested Joe Biden resign before Trump’s election triumph.
Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, has been heavily criticised for his influence during the election.
In a notable July op-ed for the New York Times, the 63-year-old actor from Ocean’s Eleven urged Biden, 81, to get out of the race for president.
He wrote: “We are not going to win in November with this president.”
Later, when Biden declared he would step down on July 21, leaving Kamala Harris to run a 107-day campaign to attempt to defeat Trump, Clooney commended him for being “selfless.”
But Trump’s incredible return to the White House on Wednesday marked the cruel end of that campaign.
As well as winning the popular vote, he currently has 295 electoral votes.
Since then, Democrats have attempted to place the blame on Clooney for urging Biden to withdraw from the presidential contest months earlier.
Journalist Joshua Hartley uploaded a screenshot of Clooney’s op-ed piece and quipped: “Thank you George Clooney.”
Another Democrat voter tweeted: “Trump should not forget to thank the Hollywood celebrities. Especially George Clooney.”
A third posted on X: “I blame George Clooney he said no more money… and now look…”
It comes after Nancy Pelosi was also put on the “naughty list” by the Democrats, as people surrounding Joe Biden blamed her for Harris’ election loss, the Daily Mail reports.
Biden confidants told top White House reporters last night that they blame the former Speaker of the House for his withdrawal from the campaign.
The president himself, according to sources, “was more deeply unpopular than anyone grasped,” but there was also a sense of betrayal among his supporters, CNN Senior White House correspondent Kayla Tausche reported on X.
While some Democrat insiders blamed every demographic imaginable, others accused Tim Walz of being too folksy, too left-wing, and too tainted by the Kenosha riots.
Hispanic voters left the party, too many black men have shifted to Donald Trump since 2020, and not enough white women attended.
Media pundits also conjectured that Joe Biden ought to have ended his campaign long before his dismal debate performance.
They contended that this would have either allowed for an open primary to choose a more formidable candidate or given Harris more time to establish herself.
Teary Democrats watch US Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech at Howard University in Washington, DC[/caption]
Harris and President Joe Biden at a Labor Day campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September[/caption]
President Biden, who is expected to deliver remarks on Thursday about the election results, also called his vice president to applaud her on a “historic campaign.”
The president also spoke with Trump over the phone, congratulating him on his victory.
Biden invited his predecessor and soon-to-be successor to the White House for the traditional meeting of outgoing presidents and presidents-elect, NBC News reported.
Meanwhile, in Florida, President-elect Trump held a triumphant celebration in West Palm Beach on the eve of the election, declaring his campaign the “greatest political movement of all time.”
Trump clinched the presidency when he captured the 10 Electoral Votes of Wisconsin, one of the seven swing states that pre-election polls had suggested stood tightly divided entering Election Day.
Early victories in North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania all but guaranteed Trump the White House.
Trump will now be the first former president in more than a century to serve non-consecutive second terms following his reelection defeat in 2020.
Democrats ‘detached from reality’, expert says
by Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
DEMOCRATS have been left stunned by their huge election defeat and have proved just how dangerously detached from reality they are, an expert says.
Dr Alan Mendoza told The Sun that Kamala Harris and her downed Dems miserably lost out to Donald Trump after heavily underestimating voters wants and needs.
The executive director for the think tank Henry Jackson Society, said the shock factor of the dismal failure can be linked back to a few crucial errors by the Harris administration.
He told The Sun: “They’ve lost connection with the American mainstream.
“I think there was just a lack of understanding of what the issues on the ground were.
“Four years of Democratic Presidential rule has not made Americans think that the party is capable of presiding over great success.
“If you looked at the exit polls huge numbers of people expressed dissatisfaction with what had happened.
“If your big issues are immigration and the economy and you’re talking about reproductive rights then you’re not connecting with the voters on the right sense.
“So I think nationally, Democrats are going to look at this election and go ‘how do we rebuild from here? What do we need to do in order to reconnect that American mainstream that clearly we’ve lost’.”
The other reason Alan says the Democrats failed so miserably is due to them underestimating Trump’s national appeal.
Many on the Left saw the Republican as weak opposition due to his legal battles since losing out to Joe Biden in 2020.
Harris was seen as the safe option by many voters whereas Trump was regarded as a “risk”.
This attitude left the Democrats severely underestimating the power that Trump commands on the average American.
He said: “The left have always underestimated Donald Trump. They’ve always thought this guy shouldn’t be allowed to win.
“As a result of it they got sucker punched in 2016, and they got sucker punched again today.
“What they needed to do was campaign effectively against him and connect with the American people to make them convinced that he shouldn’t win and instead they didn’t do that.”
Dr Mendoza added that the past few weeks – including last night – is likely to have riled up Biden.
He said: “I think he’s still annoyed he wasn’t the candidate, I think there’s a part of him that will feel vindicated by Kamala Harris’ defeat.
“He will be thinking, I told them, only I could beat Donald Trump.”
He also warned the Dems that casting the senior politician aside will only do them more harm in the long run.
Alan added: “Biden’s always been gaffe prone, and he was always likely to create a gaffe or two even if he wasn’t the candidate.
“Biden’s an easy scapegoat, but I think it’d be a foolish one because the Democrats lost for more than just Joe Biden.
“They lost because they hadn’t delivered for over four years and that’s not necessarily Biden’s fault.
“The worst thing Democrats could do from their perspective would be to blame Biden, and then pivot to the left.”
