We lost because the incumbent president had a 39% approval rating and 70% of Americans felt we were on the wrong track.

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35. Baked in to an extant but not hopelessly baked in

We lost Pennsylvania by just 1.7%, Michigan by just 1.6% and Wisconsin by just 0.9%. We could've done some things to have gotten us over the hump. Republicans control the media apparatus to combat that we needed a team of partisans to go on shows and social media and explain why inflation got like it was and also point out that the unemployment rate was lower and for a longer period of time in decades. We had some surrogates, but not nearly enough and many of the ones we had functioned more like de facto news reporters we a slight partisan slant rather then White House or Democratic surrogates, We also needed an organized plan for a mass exodus from twitter the moment Elon Musk bought it not just after the election. The Gaza situation also happened in which there was no good answer for. I don't know if that was enough to swing the election, maybe it was maybe wasn't, but it sure didn't help. We also spent to much time trying to flip republican voters, when we should've had a more aggressive outreach in the areas our people were in. We went heavily after White voters in very White rural and suburban areas and neglected or ignored pockets of rural areas with high populations of Black voters. Kamala Harris should've never said "were the underdogs" cringe every time I heard her say it. I don't care if it was true or not She still never should've said that, because under dogs usually lose and we didn't give her the ball to lose.


High approval ratings would not have guaranteed victory either. Bill Clinton averaged a 61% in his 2nd term and Al Gore still lost, okay it was stolen, but it never should've been close enough for Bush to steal to begin with.