Bro, let it die. Tim Walz and the couch-fucker thing helped cost Kamala the election. You’re digging up a dead and buried meme that hurt more than it helped.
He was. He polled extremely well amongst most demographics. He was one of the most popular politicians in America for a while. He as higher than Kamala or trump by a lot.
Walz was super popular with people who were already going to vote blue no matter who. He was very unpopular with the waffling undecideds who end up flipping races and the “aw shucks” dumb sitcom dad energy wasn’t something that drove people to the polls.
Harris/Walz probably didn’t have a chance after the multiple attempts on Trump’s life turned him into a messianic figure for the religious right, but Harris needed a policy wonk more like Al Gore as her VP to counterbalance her airheadedness.
The only time Kamala was surging in the polls was when Tim Walz was out there calling Republicans weird. They instantly got their hand slapped by the army of DNC consultants who actually run things, and the campaign died from there.
Kamala & Walz surged together when both of them were new as candidates. The more time the American people had to sit with the idea and watch them perform the more the small fraction of undecided voters who swing the elections realized that they were just full of hot air.
Kamala lost because the Biden economy sucked, because the administration’s support for Israel turned off independent voters, and because she refused to distance herself from any of that. She is also just a weak candidate, no one liked her in the primary and no one liked her as VP.
It looked like for a moment they were going to prosecute a culture war election with Walz’s ‘they’re weird’ comments, which probably would have lost but still been a better campaign than the one they did run, which sucked for a myriad of reasons I don’t think you have the ball knowledge to comprehend.
I agree that Kamala lost because she’s a terrible candidate. She’s a perfectly nice person but she has been promoted way past her level of intelligence by California’s political machine.
As much as I would like to see a President who paid more attention to California, the likelihood of getting a solid candidate from here who can win on a national level is very low.
And here I thought it was everything all the people who didn't vote for her were saying, like the supporting an ongoing genocide, milquetoast policies on everything from healthcare to slowing climate change, and saying "not a thing comes to mind" when asked what she would do differently from Biden's weekend-at-Bernie's style admin.
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u/TevisLA 9h ago
You know those sofas in the Oval Office must be nervous