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‘We Blew It, Joe!’
Supporters leave Howard University after Kamala Harris canceled an election night event in Washington, D.C., on November 6, 2024. (Angela Weiss via Getty Images)
The Democrats were the party of dishonesty—and people saw right through it.
By Peter Savodnik
11.06.24 — U.S. Politics
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The question is how the Ivy League technocrats with oodles of cash and all their allies in legacy media, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley managed to bungle this so royally.

How did Kamala Harris lose to a crook and his campaign of “relentless lying,” as CNN recently characterized it?

The answer is: It was not a campaign of relentless lying. Relentless bullshit, yes, as my colleague Eli Lake has noted. Relentless hyperbole, absolutely. But lying? That’s just not how voters saw it.

For the past eight years, the Republican Party has been having an honest conversation about the real things that ail us: inflation; the hollowing out of rural America; the rise of China; the housing crisis; the opioid crisis; the chaos at our southern border; free speech; and the decline of American power.

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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