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Remember the pandemic, he sucks at handling a crisis and can only succeed if dems shoot themselves in the foot and put an unpopular candidate.
she's a woman, that's what made her unpopular
it wasn't a bad decision, she's still the most qualified candidate
but americans showed what they want and they will live with it
That's incorrect. The Dems first ran the sitting President who vowed that he would not run a second time and waffled about for an extended period before saying he was running, and then waffled about some more before dropping out due to the extremely tepid voter opinion on his running and the Dems declaring that they weren't going to hold a primary and appointed Kamala as the candidate.
She was already a contested candidate with very mixed opinions on her track record, plus general discontent with the party leadership, and that was before the Democrats gagged her and her running mate when they found the most effective political campaign move they could ever possibly use against Republicans when they called them "weird," and then the Dems shot the campaign's legs off when they started dragging around conservatives to speak at campaign rallies. In places where they had people like Cheney speak, the Dems dropped a full 3-5% in the polls afterwards compared to before the campaign speeches.
Kamala herself definitely played a part in it, as did sexism, but truthfully the Democrats, like with Hillary, looked a gift horse in the mouth and started sifting through the pile of horse shit behind it for "moderate conservatives." I bet if they had run a candidate like AOC and, you know, actually appealed to their base instead of avoiding talking about the things that their voters cared about, things would've been rather different. But they'll never willingly run an actual progressive, so we'll never know.
Run a progressive woman like AOC and if she loses I'll concede it's misogyny. Until then I'm putting the blame on the shitty platforms these centrist women keep running on.