The refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians resulted in a “net-negative” of voters’ support, sources said.

As part of its secret “autopsy” report on how former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to President Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) now seems to concede that the Biden administration’s support for Israel amid its continued genocide against Palestinians in Gaza played a large role in her losing votes, sources with knowledge of the report’s…

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  • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They wanted a perfect candidate, and I don’t blame them, but they let that get in the way of Harris being good enough to defeat Trump.

    That’s bullshit. She’s way too moderate/right for my taste… I still held my nose and voted for her but I’m not going to fault anyone who didn’t vote for her.

    This article is about a single issue but there were plenty of other issues with our “options” for the last election. Biden sitting on the nomination until after we could have had to primary to find the best candidate, and that’s not just on him, it’s on his whole inner circle who were all giving bullshit interviews about “he’s as sharp as I’ve ever seen him”… That’s the 2 out of the last 3 democratic primaries falling into the “sketchy af” category.

    If anyone deserves the blame for this it’s the Democratic party/leadership being co-opted by people largely indistinguishable from Republicans, acting like they get to preordain who gets the nomination and choosing poorly. The party is rotting from within while fossils who are more scared of the party moving to the left than they are of Trump.