• Porto881@lemmy.world
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    (A Harris source admits the campaign could have made her more available for podcasts if they had more time, saying, “If we had had a six-month runway instead of 107 days … does she do Martha Stewart’s podcast? Does she do something with Ina Garten?… There’s so much, so many things that you can do, but we just didn’t have time.”)

    These people will never fucking learn. Martha Stewart and Ina Garten occupy a fraction of the podcast space, which has very quickly come to take up the same platform as late night TV did twenty years ago or radio did before that. Don’t forget that Bill Clinton’s media blitz making him look like a normal, likeable guy is attributed to his presidency.

    I don’t like Joe Rogan or listen to JRE but it’s obvious that scorning the largest audience in the world is ridiculous. Bernie did it and the comments on YT are overwhelmingly supportive of him. To just write off that entire audience as a lost cause was campaign suicide, even before the whole “i would put a Republican in my cabinet, thank you Liz Cheney” stuff happened, especially as we keep seeing that this election was determined by poor, economically stunted and socially disaffected young men.

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        No, no, no, surely you don’t get it: the Harris campaign didn’t target affluent, suburban white women enough. With a 6-month extension, they could’ve surely carved out enough support to counter Trump’s gains in literally every relevant demographic.

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            “What would you do different from Biden?”

            “Nothing in particular.”

            “… you wanna try that one again?”

            “I would put a Republican in my cabinet”

            How didn’t that work???

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        If she had time to run a proper campaign, then they would have had time to conduct a primary. If they would have had a primary, she wouldn’t have been campaigning.