During a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Kellyanne Conway, former senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, was asked what she thought a second Trump term would look like, why Trump won, and why more women didn’t turn out to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
I found Conway’s explanation of why Harris lost to be the most interesting part of the interview.
The interviewer asked:
“Why wasn’t there this wave of women voters for Kamala Harris that a lot of people thought would emerge and basically save the day for her?”
Conway needed just two words to answer the question: “Kamala Harris.”
Brilliant — and correct. Conway further explained:
The answer is two words: Kamala Harris. She did not run a good campaign. She’s not an informative, particularly informative, or inspirational candidate. That is not an insult. I’m telling you the way that public received it. And if you don’t believe me, go back and look at all the election results there.
I think [it’s] tough to digest and not see that this was a sweeping rebuke of, I think, her as a candidate, but also the campaign she ran, which was seemed to be like a little bit of a mishmash of identity politics.You are not going to tell me anymore who I am, what I believe, and for whom I should vote based on my gender, my age, my religion. I’m going to make my own decisions.
Kellyanne was right, but she was also too kind.
Kamala Harris was and remains a fraud. She was incapable of constructing an intelligible sentence — much less a specific, detailed response when asked about her policies — and what she would have done differently than failed President Joe Biden or anything else. Her silly, scripted answers became memes. How many times did she begin a meaningless answer with “Let me first say, I grew up in a middle-class family…”?