3 thoughts on “OpEd: Dissecting Kamala Harris’ Losing Campaign”

  1. Barrett Holman Leak

    Rabbi Samuel, you state that Vice President Kamala Harrris ” failed to understand what the average American citizen was going through whenever they went to the store to purchase groceries as well as housing costs and the rising utility bills.

    https://apnews.com/article/harris-economy-taxes-homes-food-prices-insurance-e1ad3f26f2ce8e6cb365a4ffe2ca3e6b
    https://apnews.com/article/harris-economy-taxes-homes-food-prices-insurance-e1ad3f26f2ce8e6cb365a4ffe2ca3e6b
    https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lower-housing-costs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWtZB0KHmmk

    “Kamala’s endless word-salads and repetitious communication style”: As an educated attorney with a Juris Doctorate, and a successful prosecutor polished in courtrooms, she is skilled in solid comprehensible oratory. Please give me links to at least two examples of this word salad allegation.

    Are you absolutely unaware that Trump closed down a McDOnald’s and staged the entire McDOnald’s skit? Are you aware it was because Harris had actualy worked at one in her younger years, as as member of the workign class. Trump is now and always has been out of touch with poor and working class people. Did you really not know any of this?

    The Indian Removal Act. Are you actually PRAISING Jackson’s racist act that resulted in The tail of Tears and deaths of Native Americans? The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a law that allowed President Andrew Jackson to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to relocate them from their homelands in existing states to unsettled land west of the Mississippi River. While some tribes accepted the act, many resisted. For example, the Cherokees were forcibly removed in 1838–1839 on a march that became known as the Trail of Tears. It’s estimated that around 100,000 Native Americans were forced from their homes and 15,000 died during the Trail of Tears. The ones who resued to leave were told they could no longer be Indian. Today they are the Eastern Band Cherokee tribe.

    Trump/Vance ran the negative campaign, with a constant stream of racist and sexist comments. Trump is the “grab them by the P***y” guy, referring to women and so many more disturbing things. Vance is no better and perhaps even more disturbing as a future presidential candidate. THey outright lie.

    Harris has put in 200% as a leader and yet her detractors lie and falsely claim she is unintelligent, arrogant, uneducated, lazy and only got anything in life because she is a Black woman. This is all the lies of racist people. Wag the dog style. You need not call a Black person the n-word to show that is what you think of them. You simply use words like “angry”, “arrogant”, “lazy” and “stupid” and lie about who she is as well as denigrate her reputation

    This op/ed is lacking in facts. I hope you will read the links and give examples and respond.

    “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” ~ Malcolm X.

  2. Diana Rozenshteyn

    Kamala Harris’ loss was not surprising at all. However, the reason, in my view, why the Democratic party lost the presidency is not because they chose Harris as their candidate, although she did run an abysmal campaign based on the fear of the other guy and no real proposals, but because of Democratic party itself. Until they stop pointing fingers at the voters and call half of the country racists etc. and begin to look introspectively how to get it together and connect with an average voter in America, they are going to be losing elections. They have become completely detached from reality, no real platform to run on besides pondering to the fringe groups on the left. It did not start on October 7th, but after October 7th it is certainly brought it home to many voters, especially Jewish voters. When the party does not care enough to combat antisemitism and anti-American rhetoric and actions on the streets of our cities and college campuses, when feminist organizations who are now crying over Trump’s win stay completely silent about what happened to Jewish women on October 7th and silent about Jewish girls still being held hostage, while appeasing pro Hamas fraction of their party, it is hard to vote for them. And let’s not forget economic challenges average Americans are facing that Democratic party is not addressing because they are busy with DEI departments and virtue signaling. As reported by Tablet Magazine, 48 out of 50 states shifted republican. Even in blue California, 10 of California’s 58 counties flipped from blue to red — choosing Joe Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. That includes Orange Country which gave 49.2% of its vote to Trump and 48.2% to Harris. If Democratic Party is going to continue to not listen to the voters at large and not going to make some changes and shake up inside the party, they are going to lose next election also.

  3. Thank you, Rabbi, for your analysis. It was cogent and very, very accurate.

    Kamala was the worst candidate that the Dems could have chosen. She has a long, long history of incompetence. She is arrogant and very difficult to work with and for. 94% of her Staff quit. She is demonstrably lazy.

    The decision to select Kamala, most likely linked to her racial background and gender, not her ability, reflected the decay the Democrat Party had sunk to under Obama’s leadership.

    If she truly had abilities in the political world, she should have chosen Josh Shapiro for V.P. She might have won.

    Gavin Newsom is, to most of the country, a typical California nut case politician who has driven one of the most magnificent states in the Union into the ground.

    Josh Shapiro, if the extremists in the Democrat Party can be pushed aside, could be the 28 nominee and possibly the 48th President of the U.S.

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