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Vice President Harris suffered a monolithic nonaccomplishment to President-elect Donald Trump this week, losing her run arsenic Trump swept battleground and traditionally Republican states alike that catapulted him past the needed 270 electoral assemblage votes.
Harris' truncated run cycle, which lone launched toward the extremity of July aft President Biden dropped retired of the contention and passed the torch to his VP, was marked by a fistful of gaffes and missteps that haunted her efforts to tribunal voters and became governmental fodder for Trump and his campaign.
Fox News Digital examined Harris' astir 100-day run and compiled the vice president's biggest run mistakes that apt outgo her enactment astatine the ballot box.
Harris declares she would not bash thing otherwise than President Biden
In what was arguably Harris' biggest run misstep, the vice president declared aboriginal successful October portion appearing connected "The View" that she could not deliberation of an illustration of wherever she differed with President Biden connected a argumentation determination oregon governmental presumption crossed the administration.
"If anything, would you person done thing otherwise than President Biden during the past 4 years?"
"There is not a happening that comes to mind," Harris answered.
Harris' remark stands successful stark opposition to however voters were feeling: They were unhappy with the existent administration's leadership.
Preliminary information from the Fox News Voter Analysis, a survey of much than 110,000 voters nationwide, recovered that the bulk of voters headed into the polls believing the state was headed successful the incorrect direction.
Democrat statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine Michigan State University, Nov. 3, 2024, successful East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Voters up of casting their ballots reported that the state was connected the incorrect way (70%, up from 60% who felt that mode 4 years ago) and seeking thing different. Most wanted a alteration successful however the state is run, with astir a 4th seeking implicit and full upheaval.
"Kamala Harris is much of the same," Vice President-elect JD Vance posted to X past period astir Harris' remark connected "The View." "She admits it herself."
"This volition beryllium the nail successful Kamala Harris’s coffin," The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis predicted past month.
"It reminds maine of John Kerry’s ‘I voted for the $87 cardinal earlier I voted against it’ remark astir Iraq warfare backing erstwhile helium was warring charges of being a spineless flip-flopper," helium added. "That azygous remark ended his campaign."
Harris accused of utilizing ‘new accent’ during run events; ‘word salad’ gaffes
Harris was accused a fistful of times of unveiling a "new accent" portion speaking to antithetic voters crossed the country, including critics comparing her to a cartoon quality astatine 1 constituent and a preacher astatine different run event.
Harris traveled to the Church of Christian Compassion successful Philadelphia past month, wherever she spoke to the predominantly Black congregants and telling them that successful conscionable 9 days, voters will "have the powerfulness to determine the destiny of our federation for generations to come."
Harris cited the Book of Psalms successful her remarks, including saying, "Weeping whitethorn endure for a night, but joyousness cometh successful the mornin’. The way whitethorn look hard, the enactment whitethorn look heavy, but joyousness cometh successful the mornin’ and religion greeting is connected its way."
Critics connected societal media pounced connected clips of Harris quoting Psalms, saying she debuted a caller "pastor" accent, comparing her inflection to the precocious Rev. Martin Luther King's oratory.
While speaking earlier national workers during a Detroit Labor Day rally, she was criticized for utilizing an accent that was compared to "Foghorn Leghorn."
"Since erstwhile does the vice president person what sounds similar a Southern accent?" Fox News' Peter Doocy asked White House property secretary Karine Jean-Pierre successful September aft her Detroit code that was compared to the cartoon character.
"I person nary thought what you’re talking about," Jean-Pierre replied.
"Well, she was talking astir unions successful Detroit utilizing 1 code of voice, she utilized the aforesaid enactment successful Pittsburgh, and it sounded similar she astatine slightest had immoderate benignant of Southern drawl," Doocy pressed.
"I mean, bash you perceive the question that you’re – I mean, bash you deliberation Americans earnestly deliberation that this is an important question?" Jean-Pierre pushed back. "You cognize what they attraction about? They attraction astir the economy, they attraction astir lowering costs, they attraction astir wellness care. That’s what they privation to perceive … ideology and state … I’m not going to adjacent entertain immoderate question astir … it’s conscionable … proceeding it sounds truthful ridiculous. The question – I’m talking astir the question – is conscionable insane."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a autochthonal of Chicago, has besides repeatedly been accused of employing antithetic accents crossed her decades successful the nationalist eye, astir notably for utilizing a confederate drawl.
Harris was besides slammed for rambling "word salads" during repeated nationalist events, which the Trump run and critics often mocked.
"We request to defender that spirit. We person to defender that spirit. Let it ever animate us. Let it ever beryllium the root of our optimism, which is that tone that is uniquely American. Let that past animate america by helping america to beryllium inspired to lick the problems that truthful galore face, including our tiny concern owners," Harris said, for example, successful September portion speaking to the Economic Club of Pittsburgh.
"I grew up knowing the children of the assemblage are the children of the community, and we should each person a vested involvement successful ensuring that children tin spell turn up with the resources that they request to execute their God-given potential," she said astatine the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 47th yearly Leadership Conference successful Washington, D.C., successful September.
In different "word salad" misstep conscionable days up of the election, Harris said, "We are present due to the fact that we are warring for a democracy. Fighting for a democracy. And recognize the quality here, recognize the quality here, moving forward, moving forward, recognize the quality here."
Harris avoids the media for weeks, fails to clasp a property conference
Harris carried retired her 107-day run without holding a azygous property conference, and she avoided sit-down media interviews for the archetypal 38 days of her run earlier yet joining CNN for an interview.
Trump held astatine slightest six quality conferences successful which helium took questions from the media since the opening of August. Harris held none, but did person a fewer informal property gaggles passim the campaign.
107 DAYS: KAMALA HARRIS HAS YET TO DO FORMAL PRESS CONFERENCE SINCE EMERGING AS DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
The Harris-Walz run accrued their media beingness successful the last weeks of the campaign, including Harris joining a CNN municipality hallway and interviews with NBC News, Telemundo and CBS, successful summation to respective podcasts and section quality stations. She besides sat down with Fox News' Bret Baier past month, which Baier described arsenic a "contentious" interview.
Touted personage endorsements successful run events
Harris repeatedly leaned connected celebrities during the campaign, including touting their prima presumption for flash rallies.
Harris held a rally past period successful reddish Texas wherever she was joined by celebrities specified arsenic Beyoncé, Jessica Alba and Willie Nelson. Harris' rally included an estimated 30,000 radical arsenic connection dispersed that Beyoncé was slated to look astatine the rally. The popular prima officially endorsed Harris during her quality but did not execute immoderate songs.
Ahead of the rally, media outlets specified arsenic MSNBC reported Beyoncé would not lone look but would besides apt execute astatine the rally. Beyoncé did not perform, sparking the Trump run to reason that Harris "lied" astir Beyoncé's quality astatine the rally successful bid to "build a crowd."
Houston autochthonal Beyoncé Knowles speaks during Vice President Harris' rally, Oct. 25, 2024, astatine Shell Energy Stadium successful Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
In Pennsylvania, which was viewed arsenic the authorities that would apt find the result of the wide election, Harris held a bevy of events connected her last time connected the run trail. She was joined astatine rallies successful Pittsburgh oregon Philadelphia by celebrities specified arsenic Cedric the Entertainer, Katy Perry, Andra Day, DJ Cassidy, Fat Joe and Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga.
"The different happening that makes maine nervous, successful 2016 we had a large star-studded lawsuit close connected the borderline of the election, and we mislaid the state," wide governmental expert Van Jones said connected CNN up of the election, referring to Harris' Pennsylvania rallies.
Harris' dependable enactment from celebrities comes arsenic voters reported that the system and jobs were their astir important issues heading into the predetermination arsenic ostentation since 2021 has throttled Americans' pocketbooks.
Lackluster VP selection
After Biden's exit from the race – arsenic concerns mounted implicit his intelligence acuity and property – Harris simultaneously launched her run arsenic good arsenic her hunt for a moving mate, combing done a database of high-profile Democrats and lesser-known allies earlier choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Democrats yet rallied down Walz, but different choice, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, was viewed by galore arsenic the amended campaigner to get the Democratic Party crossed the decorativeness enactment victoriously.
"As a founding subordinate of She Shoulda Picked Shapiro, I deliberation it's comparatively wide present that she made a mistake," statistician Nate Silver told the New York Times up of Election Day.
Democrat vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks astatine a run lawsuit successful Ann Arbor, Mich., connected Oct. 28, 2024. (AP/Paul Sancya)
"Pennsylvania seems to beryllium lagging a small down the different blue-wall states. Meanwhile, Walz was mediocre successful the debate, and he's been mediocre and tense successful his nationalist appearances."
Harris-Walz surrogate Lindy Li told Fox News elder White House analogous Jacqui Heinrich from Howard University, wherever Harris held her predetermination nighttime party, that Shapiro would apt person aided the Harris campaign’s efforts to notch a monolithic victory.
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Vice President Harris and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro talk to the property portion making a halt astatine the Reading Terminal Market successful Philadelphia connected July 13, 2024. (RYAN COLLERD/AFP)
"One of the things that are apical of caput is the prime of Tim Walz arsenic vice statesmanlike candidate," Li said. "A batch of radical are saying contiguous that it should person been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, radical person been saying that for months."
Considering Pennsylvania's battleground-state status, the fashionable first-term politician was viewed arsenic a imaginable cardinal for the Harris run to scope the coveted 270 electoral votes to fastener up the election. Shapiro, who is Jewish, was besides touted arsenic a imaginable span for the Harris run to tribunal Jewish voters amid backlash implicit her erstwhile comments defending anti-Israel protesters who rocked assemblage campuses past twelvemonth during the warfare successful Israel.
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Pennsylvania yet voted for Trump and moved him crossed the decorativeness line.
Fox News Digital's Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.
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