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66. Losing candidates need to point the finger at themselves, not

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 08:22 AM

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try to shift the blame onto someone else.

Living here in PA, we were innudated with campaign ads. Harris had a huge campaign cash war chest. Yet she ran nearly the same campaign strategy as Clinton did in this state in 2016. She concentrated on the big urban Dem strongholds counting on turnout to offset the rural R votes. Had she followed Fetterman's example and gone to the rural parts of PA and especially explained how much "Bidenomics" was working for their communities, she might well have won. She and her strategists completely missed the message sent by voters in the 2016 PA primary where Bernie Sanders handily won the rural counties. There was a winning economic populist message, but Harris never deployed it. Instead she spent her time trying to woo never Trumper Rs.

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