The political tremors and aftershocks are still being felt following the general election results. As things stand, not only did Donald Trump win a surprising number of swing states, but he also bagged the popular vote. Republicans took the edge in the Senate, and while not holding a true majority in the House, they will likely retain their advantage with Mike Johnson remaining as the Speaker. This is a true mandate.
In the wake of this, the Democrats and affiliated entities are in a state of dismay, and we now take a look at those who also will be suffering a loss with the defeat of Kamala Harris, and the Democrats on a wider scale. There are plenty of wounds that will be licked for a time now.
Probably the biggest faction to lose is the obvious one – the national media. There is no debating how they were fully behind Kamala Harris. The press industry bet hard on Harris as they pushed their chips all in while holding a pair of threes, and the voting public called their bluff. Currently the news outlets and the journalists are grieving, and it is amusing to watch the wailing.
But they were the obvious losers. Following the vote Tuesday there are a number of others as well as entities that suffered severe setbacks on Tuesday night.
TIM WALZ
The Minnesota governor was a barely regarded figure going into the summer, but the withering of Joe Biden and having Kamala Harris spot-welded onto the ticket brought Walz to national attention – and it did not benefit him in the end. His past controversies were dredged up, the reliance on him to draw in male voters had alpha males laughing as he failed repeatedly — at drawing football plays, at hunting, and even playing video games. He tried to slam Trump and JD Vance as “weird,” all while behaving as a kickline goofball on stage and devolving into a punchline. His political future is now as dim as a warning light on a toaster.
IAN SAMS
The former Hillary Clinton spokesman was pulled from the Biden camp to run his second failed presidential campaign. He was a regular feature on the news network, essentially delivering the campaign work for them to do on behalf of the sheltered Kamala, and look how that turned out. He ended things by trying to insist that Trump’s appearance at a McDonald’s and in the cab of a garbage truck were his “Dukakis Moments,” all while the public was raving about those moments.
HOLLYWOOD
Like most elections, the celebrity set was trotted out to back the Democrats, but in this election, those endorsements felt quite devalued. Hollywood is liberal by default, so seeing these luminaries touting Harris did not move the needle as most people reacted with a “Well yeah, of course” kind of reaction. Nobody thought Beyoncé would have ever backed Trump. Bruce Springsteen’s endorsement was met with yawns. When the actors from “The Avengers” backed Harris in a Zoom call, many said the Biden-Harris administration was Thanos. The press exploded over Taylor Swift promoting Harris but failed to recognize a bulk of her fan base is too young to even vote. The best is the late-night gabbers using their shows now not to entertain audiences but to serve as their therapy sessions.
DEI
This topic was brought up soon after Kamala was anointed, and her campaign suffered as a result. The Democrats and the press tried to imply it was racist to suggest Kamala was a DEI candidate, but what it ended up doing was having people regard her as just that. The announcement by Biden that he would choose a POC female for a running mate basically defines the term. A sign of how this concept was being denigrated during this election played out as a number of companies came out with announcements that they were dropping DEI programs.
ANN SELZER
The once highly regarded pollster came out with a jarring poll the weekend ahead of the election, and the press exploded with excitement. Seltzer was claiming that her poll of Iowa showed a shocking 21-point swing from months earlier and that Kamala had spun things and held a +3 percent lead. Few in the press analyzed this as an outlier and tried to claim this would swing the entire election. It was all by design. Seltzer leaked her “findings” to the press early, and it was made clear what a propaganda stunt this was since Trump buried Kamala in the state – showing Selzer was off by only 16 percentage points. She will be rightly disregarded in future elections.
Democratic Influencers
If you spent any time on political threads on social media there is a chance you have come across any of a number of online voices who pumped out perpetual pro-party agit-prop. These names have long been exposed as pocketing cash from the DNC, despite their denials. Now that the election has concluded and their influence was shown to be non-existent, we expect the likes of Harry Sisson, Brooklyn Dad, Jo From Jersey, and many other unconnected dupes to see those paychecks stop flowing and then fade from our timelines.
Democratic Masculinity
The male vote was proven to be the big challenge for the Harris campaign, and this was augmented by the attempts to curry favor with males this fall. The party that has spent so much energy slandering toxic males suddenly faced the need to draw those they had demonized, and they were clueless. Tim Walz was sold as a hunter, yet he could not handle his gun. Doug Emhoff was sold as a sex symbol when in reality men would move to sit across the bar away from him. They delivered a farcical false ad of “men” (actors) supporting Kamala. And of course there was the laughable group “White Dudes for Harris” that managed to only gather those already under the Democrat gazebo.
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ESTEE PALTI
Probably the preeminent Kamala Harris imitator out there, she sees the promising four years become reduced to just about two more months of relevancy for her mockery. (But surely she will find other avenues to further her career.) In similar fashion, Maya Rudolph will see her return to “Saturday Night Live” playing Kamala become truncated as a result.
DORITOS
It was one of the attempts to humanize Kamala – she loves herself some Doritos chips! Why this was seen as a character-building facet is not entirely clear, but the campaign felt it was a building block to have her connect with voters. So much so, there was that cringe-fest video of the staged visit to a Sheetz convenience store when both Dougie Emhoff and Tim Walz were shown procuring a bag of the snack chips for Kamala. Frito-Lay will miss out on four years of free advertising as a result of her defeat.
