The Democratic Party suffered a historic loss in the 2024 elections, after losing control of the White House and the Senate, while the situation is still not completely clear for the House of Representatives.
A CNN report stated that following… Harris loss In the face of Republican candidate Donald Trump, some Democrats held current President Joe Biden responsible.
Harris became the Democratic Party’s nominee after Biden, who was already struggling to convince voters that he could serve as president until he was 86, withdrew. His poor performance in his debate with Trump on June 27 caused him to face pressure within the Democratic Party to announce his withdrawal from the race by July 21.
“Biden is going to take a lot of the blame for this loss, and frankly, he should,” a senior Harris campaign official told CNN.
For many Democrats, it comes down mainly to Biden’s decision to seek re-election to a second term, rather than fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to be a “transitional” or “bridge” president for a new generation of Democrats.
Democrats believe that if Biden had decided not to seek a second term at the appropriate time, the Democratic Party could have witnessed strong competition in the primaries, thus enabling the new candidate to conduct a distinctive campaign of his own.
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Instead, Biden’s decision to remain in the race despite the concerns of many Democrats ultimately forced him out of the race just a few months before Election Day, giving Harris no choice but to run in an unusually “tight” race. .
The official lamented that “the party never had a chance to decide whether Harris was in fact the strongest and most reliable candidate against Trump.”
Billionaire Bill Ackman, a longtime Democratic donor who endorsed Trump in 2024, said the Democratic Party “needs a complete reboot.”
He added on the X platform: “The party lied to the American people about President Biden’s mental health and fitness,” and then did not hold a primary to replace him.
Some angry people accused the Democratic Party of lying to its supporters about Biden’s mental fitness, until the disastrous television debate with Trump last June raised alarms and ultimately led to Biden’s exit from the race. One Democratic donor asked Reuters: “Why did Joe Biden hold out for so long? He should not have hidden (his health) and withdrawn much sooner.”
A Democratic National Committee official said he received angry text messages from party members late Tuesday night. He added: “They feel that the campaign lied to them.”
Harris’s defeat represents the Democrats’ second bitter loss to Trump during the past three elections. Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 paved the way for Biden to run.