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It's literally 2016 but worse somehow.

One source close to the Harris campaign tells Rolling Stone they reached out to several staffers in and around the campaign to voice concerns about the candidate embracing Dick and Liz Cheney.

“People don’t want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says the source, speaking about Dick Cheney. They say a Harris staffer responded that it was not the staff’s role to challenge the campaign’s decisions.

A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney — and making the campaign’s closing argument about how many Republicans were supporting Harris — was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020. The strategist says they also attempted to have big donors and battleground state party chairs convey the same argument to the Harris campaign.

Another Democratic operative close to Harrisworld says they sent memos and data to Harris campaign staffers underscoring how, among other things, Republican voters, believe it or not, vote Republican — and that the data over the past year screamed that Democrats instead needed to reassure and energize the liberal base and Dem-leaning working class in battleground states. “We were told, basically, to get lost, no thank you,” says the operative.

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[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's why I linked a multitude of polls to show what the vast majority of people want...

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup. Linked to a bunch of polls without making any claims regarding them.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democrats chose to not run on progressive policies that are popular and address the material conditions that affect everyday Americans. Progressive policies that are also popular with Republican voters and would've instead fractured the Republican base, bringing more people to get out and vote Democrat across the board.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you understand the difference between labels and policy?

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m sorry I don’t have time to teach you. Take a class if you want your questions answered.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was a rhetorical question. People want progressive policies that improve their lived experience. That goes for the majority of republican voters too.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not according to the people who voted

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's as if the Democrats ran on a neoliberalism platform instead of one with progressive policies. Very obvious to anyone who looked at even a single source of the ones I cited about public support for progressive policies.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And as if you didn’t read any of mine.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did. None of them are about policy

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then you didn’t actually read them

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go ahead and point to a specific policy, because your articles don't mention any. Feel free to use any of mine, where it's actually about policy

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They are all about policy why point to a specific one if you won’t bother reading them. Not to mention that we are talking about what the polls say voters want and you are trying to change the subject to policy

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because I did and they don't lol. The fact that you can't point to a specific one is on you.

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

I literally linked them to you and you don’t bother reading them while trying to change the subject. Lol