Kamala Harris Ignores Hillary Clinton’s Playbook
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-ignores-hillary-clinton-playbook-1930639
Kamala Harris Ignores Hillary Clinton’s Playbook
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-ignores-hillary-clinton-playbook-1930639
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Awesome.
Good. She’s her own person. And she took the baton and she is running….. She’s such a better politician than she was four years ago.
Well yes she went to the Midwest
as she should
Hillary Clinton managed to lose the election to a clown game show host so that’s promising.
Thank fucking God.
Best to just forget the Clintons altogether
I noticed it too. She’s not talking about her race or gender instead she’s talking about the issues and the weirdness of the republicans
She should not waste a minute of the 100 days she has pointing out the obvious. Everyone else – like this article – will do that enough.
Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. Kamala Harris should not be taking any pages from her book. In fact the only thing Harris should be using Clinton’s book for is as a list of things NOT to do.
Good it was a shit playbook
?? good, she failed
So she won’t be engaging in the Democrat’s favorite pass time of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Good to hear.
*Thank God.* Hillary’s obsession with talking about the historic nature of her candidacy was a major turn-off. You know who almost never did that? Obama. He understood that people get it without him needing to say anything.
One of the worst feelings in the world is the frustration you experience when someone explains something to you that you already know. Hillary decided to do it all the time.
Hillary had so much heavy baggage that made it hard to get away from. Kamala is like a breathe of fresh air in comparison and has the opportunity to be completely unique and I’m here for it.
“I’m with you” vs “I’m with her”
I was worried Harris would come off as patronizing and condescending, and while I felt vindicated being in the camp calling for Biden to step down, I am definitely willing to accept that I was wrong about Harris. She’s doing extremely well and has an amazing team backing her up. I haven’t felt this much hope since Sanders or Obama.
To save people the time with the article the point is that rather than focus on the historical nature of a possible victory Harris is basically ignoring it and running as if she was any other candidate. It is likely smart because it keeps the focus on her policies and on Trump’s failings far more than beating the drum of being the 1st woman to be president.
Why would anyone use it? I like Secretary Clinton, but come on.
Clinton’s playbook: Ignore the midwest swing states and be as smug and condescending as fucking possible.
It’s a good play.
Don’t make it about her. Make it about *us.*
Like Obama did.
And she’d better continue to do so.
Hillary played it like her win was a foregone conclusion. It was her time, her turn, and no third rate chump like trump would get in the way. She took a lot for granted, didn’t visit the battleground states enough.
And then Clinton got a dose of reality.
Harris on the other hand is the unexpected ray of sunshine blinking through the dark clouds of old white man politics. Trump never thought Biden would exit, Dem voters thought they’d be stuck with more of the same shit they’d seen for the last 12 years, inertia had a grip on the wheel that seemed to be steering us toward another trump win.
Harris’s campaign has the same energy I remember from Obama’s and it’s turned the race on its head. Dem voters have a sense of what’s possible, rather than a sense of dread about the inevitable.
Harris has more than a fighting chance to go all the way, and she seems savvy enough to hit trump hard, in ways he won’t see coming, until the polls close in Election Day.
This is going to be a wild ride!
Let Kamala be Kamala, so far from what I hear, she’s doing just fine.
Good, ditch most of the DNC playbook. It doesn’t work. Stop playing defense and go on offense.
Well shit I would too, Clinton actually lost to Trump when she was heavily favored by essentially just getting greedy and assuming she couldn’t possibly lose. That and, in retrospect, that “I’m With Her” tagline was cringe AF. I mean, talk about making it all literally about you.
As an aside, I will note that rhetorically Kamala doesn’t use I nearly as much as “we” and “us”. I haven’t broken down a speech word for word yet, so maybe it’s just vibes, but she doesn’t actually talk about herself much when stumping. It’s all “what we’re going to do” and “what we’re fighting for.” If I had the free time I would track down transcriptions of old Clinton speeches (lost relics now, I’m sure) and compare them with what we have from Kamala on the trail so far. I am willing to wager that, beyond differences in style and cadence, that whole “use the inclusive pronoun as much as possible” thing will show up to varying amounts.
To make the aside even longer than the original comment: this sort of talk shows up all the time in populist rhetoric. Obviously some populism is completely nihilistic bullshit, but not all of it is. The playbook isn’t the problem so much as what sort of gameplan you can execute with it.
Just saw a Harris ad on YouTube. She talks about our “**movement**”, not our “campaign”. I think this is the right message she learned from Obama’s success, and Hillary’s failure.
Dems should never ever take votes for granted again. Campaign like every single voter in every single state is 50/50. We CANNOT lose this.
Harris also had one major advantage that Hilary didn’t the not having Clinton as a last name. I remember the energy too with Hilary was really low it was basically for a lot of people picking between 2 evils even when I talk about her with one of my teachers it was “I’ll vote for her if I have to”. Harris has made people a lot more positive when they speak about her. I’m still little anxious but I’m feeling really good going into November
Yea, I’d ignore the playbook of someone that lost to Trump too.
I’m team “when they go low we kick them in the throat”
Clinton had 20 years of smear tactics against her. Kamala is yet undefined in the eyes of the electorate and that’s why Trump is having a difficult time coming up with anything that sticks (laughing Kamala? Really?) Clinton, despite her brains and tenacity and able work in and out of government, was seen as Clinton 2.0 and defined by her association with Bill.
Kamala is a prosecutor. Trump is a criminal. She’s young. He’s old. She’s smart. He’s demented. She is the future. He is the past.
The short timeline is going to work in her favor. It is no longer 2008 and women have taken many more leadership roles and been successful in both government and the business worlds.
The groundwork has been laid and the time is ripe for a female president.
I’m sorry it was not Hilary but I am glad Kamala is there, poised and ready to seize the opportunity.
We won’t go back!
That’s a good thing!
We don’t need a repeat of 2016.
She’s making it more about the people than herself. A very good thing.
Good, it was a horrible playbook. Hillary felt like she already won and was just doing the motions before being crowned. Its one of the big reasons I feel she lost.
Kamala on the other hand, is pulling out all the stops to win, and it makes me like her more due to that.
Harris knows how to play into the memes. Either she’s just with it or her team knows how to coach her properly. Clinton came off as some old white lady who was trying too hard. I have some aunts that are similar to Clinton when it comes to getting the youth and it can be a little too goofy. Idk how much that turned people off from voting for her but it definitely didn’t endear her in the swing states.
Harris has a better chance.
This is entirely based on vibes though.
TLDR.
I lived through Clintons first presidency. I think the DNC putting Hillary up in ‘16 is what gave us Chump.
Hillary was a fucking dud. I was excited though, and voted for her, but she’s just another old white man in a women suit.
Her playbook was shit.
Good.
Fact she’s female or black is historic sure. But no one really cares because that’s not important.
The policies are important. Keep talking about that
Because verbally abusing key core demographics of voters worked so well for Clinton….and people act like it’s some big mystery how she lost.
Almost like being petty isn’t a winning political strategy…..