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If Harris loses, expect Democrats to move right
VOX ^ | 10/22/24 | Eric Levitz

Posted on 10/22/2024 10:49:05 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Democrats are currently focused on the fight against Donald Trump. But quietly, factions within the party are preparing contingency plans for a different battle: the one over how to interpret a Kamala Harris loss.

Polls of the 2024 election show the closest presidential race in modern memory. For Harris, defeat is roughly as likely as victory. The former outcome is sure to trigger a fierce, intra-Democratic debate over what the party should learn from losing the White House (twice) to an unpopular demagogue

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If Harris loses, expect Democrats to move right

Even though Harris is running as a moderate, progressives are likely to get blamed for her defeat.

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KEYWORDS: election; ericlevitz; kamala; trump; vox; whatajoke
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To: DallasBiff

The moderate Democrats want to get rid of the Progressives with the same intensity that the old Country Club GOP wants to get right of MAGA.

It sure will be interesting.


61 posted on 10/22/2024 11:50:04 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Stupidest thing I’ve ever read.

Same here. A dumb fluff piece.


62 posted on 10/22/2024 11:50:17 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: DallasBiff

I think they’ll seek candidates that can put on a better performance, and lie more convincingly. Their policies ratchet relentlessly leftward. Right is not an option.


63 posted on 10/22/2024 11:54:03 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: DallasBiff
If Harris loses, expect Democrats to move right

You mean fake right, then cut left.

64 posted on 10/22/2024 12:00:49 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: DallasBiff

If Donald Trump is elected I expect the Democrats have prepared their army of radical thugs to riot, loot, and kill Whitey.

And push for a civil war.


65 posted on 10/22/2024 12:03:15 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: DallasBiff

I’m going to send the DNC a box full of MAGA hats.
Oh wait, that line has already been taken.

“My Bad.”


66 posted on 10/22/2024 12:12:26 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m going to send the DNC a box full of MAGA hats.
Oh wait, that line has already been taken.

“My Bad.”


67 posted on 10/22/2024 12:12:26 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Jamestown1630
She's "running" as a moderate.

That's rat code for "she's lying to fool those rubes."

68 posted on 10/22/2024 12:25:34 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Getready

I respectfully disagree. The Dims of the near future will have some changes back to normal (i.e. no more trans, grooming in schools, blatant anti-white screed, etc.). But the new Dims of being vocally pro-socialist will remain. By getting rid of the cultural weird stuff they’ll be able to rebrand themselves as moderate left of center, when really they’ll be way further left than before Obama got into the WH.


69 posted on 10/22/2024 12:31:04 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff
if one goes to the link, they will ask you to accept the cookies

...and drink the Kool-Aid.

70 posted on 10/22/2024 12:31:31 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Assignation?


71 posted on 10/22/2024 12:32:23 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: metmom
'I had a dem tell me they'd rather vote for a monkey than Trump.'

Well, if they vote for Harris, they're aren't aiming much higher up on the intelligence scale.
72 posted on 10/22/2024 12:32:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Correction: “Even though Comma La is lying about being a moderate......”


73 posted on 10/22/2024 12:35:24 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Jamestown1630

HOW TO ACCEPT A HARRIS LOSS?

ADMIT SHE SUCKS-—IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.


74 posted on 10/22/2024 12:40:02 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DallasBiff

I hope the party splits


75 posted on 10/22/2024 12:40:42 PM PDT by struggle
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To: DallasBiff

If Harris looses expect the RATs to set loose their armies of illegals, BLM and AntiFa with with complete files with photos of targets.


76 posted on 10/22/2024 12:41:44 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: DallasBiff

No, they will whine and complain, you will even see some talking head say something about not getting their message out. You MAY even see the Dems turn on Kamala and/or Biden as being weak or ineffective with X voting block,


77 posted on 10/22/2024 12:44:00 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: DallasBiff

No way.

When democrats lose, they double down… they triple down. It’s what they do.


78 posted on 10/22/2024 12:46:10 PM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Tell It Right

The Joe Manchin standard.


79 posted on 10/22/2024 12:49:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Getready
The party as constructed is dead.

The Democrats have cobbled this coalition on the premise that conservatism is heartless and leaves a trail of despair and misery in it's wake. Whether it's financial harm to poor people, emotional harm to the LGBT crowd, or the whole ball of wax harm to people of color.

But after seeing what the Democrats have done in 12 of the last 16 years, it looks more and more like the country is moving into indentured servitude, while a select group of elites get really rich. There isn't joy in being in debt that seems to have no end.

All the Democrats have left is a promise to take care of people who see no value in taking care of themselves- mostly people who have emotional disturbances that are being treated with psychiatric drugs.

Of course, I'm not sure the party is dead yet, but it needs to be. And I hope it will be further crippled in the election.

80 posted on 10/22/2024 12:49:44 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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