Democratic strategists and organizers are hoping that if 2024 presidential nominee Kamala Harris performs well in the November election, there will be a down-ballot effect in gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House races. Democrats have a small majority in the Senate, while Republicans have a sing...
They did it to themselves
Radiohead wrote a song about it a long time ago.
Old school
And that’s why it really hurts
They may have had help:
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
This is old news, that article is from 2016.
No one here is going to defend her or her strategy that famously didn’t work and backfired spectacularly.
Saying the article is old is like saying don’t bring up Reaganomics… the impacts are still being felt, there’s still relevance.
And I linked it to suggest that these fringe candidates are still being picked and losing, perhaps as a long term effect of the strategy.