r/moderatepolitics • u/cathbadh • 21d ago

Democrats should pay attention to Kristen McDonald Rivet's election postmortem Opinion Article

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristen-mcdonald-rivet-democrats-win-rcna184010
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u/pixelatedCorgi 21d ago

Kamala Harris is not in any sense of the word a centrist, nor anything even remotely resembling one. You can say her 3 month campaign was fairly moderate but she has a 2+ decade career resumé as an extreme progressive.

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u/Xalimata 21d ago

Maybe if she ran an actually progressive campaign rather than parading around the Cheney she might have won.

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u/pixelatedCorgi 21d ago

I guess it’s possible 🤷‍♂️

We’ll never know, though I find it hard to believe that tripling down on progressivism would have accomplished anything other than an even larger defeat.

The whole Cheney thing was bizarre regardless though and an obvious misstep.

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u/Xalimata 21d ago

She ran a centrist campaign that had little to no substance. Actually having real beliefs would have helped.