Evidently, Democrats have yet to solve the mysterious case of Kamala Harris losing to President Donald J. Trump. The question on every leftist’s lips is whether there could have been a way for Harris to shatter the glass ceiling. Was it too late in the game when Biden bowed out? Did Tim Walz help or hurt the cause? Or was it simply that there was no way to undo four years of angering the electorate? A new book by veteran journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, titled "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," is the latest attempt to write the autopsy of 2024.
"Brutal" was penned by the Huffington Post, and "Scathing" was written in the New York Post after the passages had been read. Writers Allen and Parnes have a storied history in covering politics. Allen is under the umbrella of NBC, and Parnes is a reporter from The Hill. This is the same duo who produced Shattered, in which Hillary Clinton was the harbinger of doom for the Democratic Party in 2016.
In all its salacious point and blame detail, this new tome avers that, had the party stuck with Joe Biden, the White House would still be theirs.
After the Lovin'
It was an epic battle between Biden loyalists and everyone else, including camp Kamala – at least it was as described by Allen and Parnes. The authors cite various aides from the Biden administration, but the book isn’t filled with valid quotes so much as paraphrased second-hand reports of what others were allegedly thinking or saying in private conversations. "Many of our sources told us what they were thinking or shared what someone else said about his or her own thinking. We received documents that shed light on what someone was thinking," they explained.
Consider the excerpts:
"It all sounded like a serial killer's conspiracy theory. Donors want to scrap Biden so they can get his wannabe replacements – the governors, with power over state decisions – to beg them for cash, Biden aides argued.”
"This isn't [expletive] Wall Street financiers versus Ivy League presidents. Our guy isn't scared of your money. We have grassroots donors. We have the support of the voters. We have the nomination in hand. All you're doing is [expletive] yourself and the president. We will remember this. Capisce?"
"Even if Biden did drop out and you got your dreamed-up open convention, you would only succeed in nominating the vice president. Is that what you want? You want her? Look at her polling. No one wants her. Forget it. It's never gonna happen."
Some might wonder if this book has anything except gossip in its 339 pages. Nowhere are the issues of the electorate discussed. You won't find the analysis of angry MAGA voters out to avenge the 2020 elections or the shift of party. No one defined the issues that mattered to 155 million voters: illegal immigration, skyrocketing inflation, pain at the pump, or scrounging to put food on the table for working families.
It was Trump who had a plan – not just the promise of a plan – and somehow, in the cacophony of a historically wild and wooly election, the Democratic Party and its members could only focus on the issues of the one percent: LGBTQ+. And for this simplest of reasons they lost the black, Hispanic, and Soccer mom votes. Oh, yes, and then there’s Trump’s felony conviction. The Democrats uttered the word felon as derisively as possible, but that only emboldened Trump supporters, inspiring the new slogan: "I'm with the Felon and the Hillbilly."
The Defeat of Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris was a pawn in both 2020 and 2024. The Biden administration gave her projects that no one in the Democratic Party could or wished to solve – the biggest being immigration. Harris seemed to excel in speaking on behalf of pro-abortion people but could rarely explain the geographical differences in foreign affairs. As Vice President, she was set up to fail – perhaps because she was unlikeable.
Trump overcame voters' concerns about impeachments and felony convictions by doing what he does best: making the deal. He made a deal with the American people and brought a host of characters who had fled the Democratic Party into his bubble. He plunged into a deep vein of dissatisfaction. Democrats struggled to rebuild a bridge with an electorate who now knew the administration had been gaslighting them for years. Whether he or his aides knew it or not, it wasn't Kamala Harris that they buried; it was the entire Democratic Party. And when Biden finally gave up his recent primary coronation, he maimed his vice president's best shot by demanding loyalty from her to endorse her bid.
Although Parnes and Allen have accurately described the most talked about election in recent history, it is through the lens of political operatives and not necessarily with the analysis this book should've provided. But fear not: No fewer than four books on the Biden presidency are expected to drop in the next months. Maybe these new tomes will exhume the 2024 presidential campaign and detail the former president's physical and mental condition before standing down. Buckle up, Democrats, the insiders are coming outside in a heated rush.
*Mr. Biden was not available to any of the many authors penning his campaign story.
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