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

Following Vice President Kamala Harris’s resounding loss in Tuesday’s presidential election, a blame game erupted among Democrats.

Just hours after former President Donald Trump completed his years-long journey back to the White House, turning the electoral map red, intense finger-pointing began within Harris’s camp, according to Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich on X.

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

Criticism initially targeted Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Heinrich reported. Walz faced backlash over allegations of embellishing his National Guard service.

“Tim Walz was a bad choice of running mate, Shapiro would have carried the blue wall,” Heinrich wrote, referencing Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—states typically crucial to Democratic victories.

Li expressed that many Democrats were questioning the choice: “People are wondering tonight what would have happened had Shapiro been on the ticket,” she said, referring to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was bypassed by Harris.

“Not just for Pennsylvania, either,” Li added. “Shapiro is famously moderate, which would have signaled to Americans that Harris isn’t the ‘San Francisco liberal’ Trump labeled her as. Instead, she chose someone further to her left from Minnesota. … In the eyes of Americans, Walz was the governor associated with overseeing protests.”

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

She quoted Li as saying 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.”

Harris’s focus on branding Trump as a fascist didn’t resonate, Heinrich wrote.

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

Li explained to Heinrich that the campaign had implemented adjustments in Pennsylvania “in the final weeks, but I fear it was too late.”

On CNN, Edward-Isaac Dovere argued that Harris’s reluctance to portray herself as a candidate of change proved costly.

“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,” Dovere wrote.