'It's Already Getting Ugly Within the Kamala Harris Campaign: Report'

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'The blame game is under way after Vice President Kamala Harris took a
humiliating shellacking in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Hours after former President Donald Trump capped his years-long campaign
to return to the White House by making the electoral college map a study
in red, fierce finger-pointing was taking place among Democrats, Fox
News reporter Jacqui Heinrich posted on X.

“The blame game has begun inside Harris world,” she wrote, sharing the
perspective of Lindy Li, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s
National Finance Committee and Pennsylvania commissioner.

The post-mortem began with the selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as
Harris’s running mate, Heinrich wrote.

Walz ran into headwinds amid allegations of fabricating his National
Guard record.

“Tim Walz was a bad choice of running mate, Shapiro would have carried
the blue wall,” Heinrich wrote, referring to the states of Minnesota,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that have often carried Democrats
to victory.

“People are wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been
on the ticket,” Li said, speaking about Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro
who was not selected by Harris.

“And not only in terms of Pennsylvania. He’s a famously a moderate. So
that would have signaled to the American people that she is not the San
Francisco liberal that Trump said she was, but she went with someone
actually to her left Minnesota. … In the eyes of the American people,
Walz was the governor who oversaw the protests,” Li said.

Heinrich wrote that “Harris’ positions were not clearly staked out.”

Heinrich quoted Li as saying that Harris “knows [what] a mistake [it]
was to say on ‘The View’ that she couldn’t think of a single thing that
she would do differently from the Biden administration”

The Harris fixation on branding Trump as a fascist failed, Heinrich
wrote.

“Too many cooks in the kitchen led to muddled campaign messaging, poor
staffing decisions in key battlegrounds,” Heinrich wrote.

Li told Heinrich that the campaign made changes in Pennsylvania “in the
final weeks of the campaign, but I fear it was too late.”

Writing on CNN, Edward-Isaac Dovere said Harris’ refusal to paint
herself as an agent of change cost her.

“A country crying out for change got a candidate who, at a crucial
moment as more voters were tuning in, decided to soft-pedal the change
she knew she represented,” he wrote.'