the kamala harris campaign was so bad it’s crazy. like setting aside all my loonie leftie purity testing positions like “genocide is bad” for a second, even setting aside the fact that biden hideously sabotaged it by demanding the campaign not do anything that might make him look bad like, say, ‘promise any differences at all from his unpopular administration’ – the pivot to immigration hawkishness was unbelievably stupid. trump is the ultimate issue owner on immigration, you are never, ever, going to convince someone whose main worry is about Evil Illegal Immigrants Taking Jobs and Doing Crime, to vote for you over donald trump on that basis. kamala harris could have filmed herself executing undocumented children with a shotgun and it would not have moved the needle on this, so all that these ads achieved was affirming for such voters that The Border was the Big Issue of this election and so that they should vote for the Border Wall Guy.
& again i am saying this from the point of view of my electoral politicsona, this is all, yknow, fairly within the purview of uncontroversial liberal polsci shit. Legendarily bad campaign, in any sensible world these people would never be allowed to touch electoral politics again. let alone what would happen to them in any Just world