How Kamala Harris' failed 2024 presidential run mirrors her ill-fated 2020 campaign

Vice President Harris' 2nd failed statesmanlike bid mirrors aspects of her archetypal trek connected the run way successful 2019, proving to beryllium short-lived and unfocused connected cardinal issues important to American voters, experts say.

"Both started with large promise," Tevi Troy, a statesmanlike historiographer and erstwhile elder authoritative successful the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News Digital successful an interview. 

"There's the consciousness that she's the savior of the caller flavor, the adjacent procreation for Democrats, and some benignant of failed spectacularly," helium said.

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Vice President Harris delivers her concession speech, Nov. 6, 2024, astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C. ((AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

In December 2019, then-Sen. Harris suspended her bid for the presidency 11 months aft entering the race, citing a deficiency of run funds and a lag successful the polls. It wasn't agelong earlier staffers exposed the disarray successful her campaign.

But earlier she was 1 of the much salient aboriginal dropouts among the tract of Democrat contenders, Harris' run started disconnected with important momentum, marked by her beardown motorboat that drew a ample assemblage successful Oakland, California. She was initially seen arsenic a top-tier candidate.

However, arsenic the run progressed, her campaign's messaging became unclear and faced pugnacious absorption from then-candidate Joe Biden arsenic good arsenic Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders.

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Vice President Harris delivers her concession code astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C., connected Nov. 6, 2024. (Fox News/Caroline McKee)

"Both [campaigns] ran aground connected the aforesaid 2 things. No. 1 is her inability to pass adjacent the astir elemental thought to the American people. And it's not due to the fact that she's not intellectually susceptible of doing it, it's due to the fact that she is successful a box," Troy said of Harris.

"She's trapped," helium added. "On the 1 hand, her inclinations and her voters are connected the left, and connected the different hand, she wants to triumph the wide election, and to entreaty to radical successful the wide election, she has to renounce the much woke policies that she's espoused passim her life."

But to bash that, Troy said, would outgo her excited progressive large donors.

Harris became the Democrat frontrunner aft President Biden suspended his bid for re-election successful July amid reports of his declining intelligence acuity successful the aftermath of a mediocre statement show against Republican erstwhile President Trump successful June. Biden rapidly endorsed Harris, who made "reproductive rights" a apical contented connected the run trail, a strategy that would yet not triumph implicit capable plaything authorities voters. Harris was the Democrat nominee for lone astir 4 months.

"I don't deliberation voters felt similar termination rights were astatine risk," different GOP strategist told Fox News Digital. "They mostly agreed that the voters should decide, which was President Trump's connection that it should beryllium sent to the states for voters themselves to decide."

"I deliberation our biggest spot was Kamala's ain words that she had truthful galore far-left San Francisco wide argumentation proposals that were each explained by her connected camera during the 2020 run that we were capable to deploy truly efficaciously and people into districts wherever radical person truly antagonistic views of those," the Republican adept said. 

And voters whitethorn person wanted much substance from Harris erstwhile it comes to the system and the border. Preliminary information from the Fox News Voter Analysis, a survey of much than 110,000 voters nationwide, provides an aboriginal look astatine the temper of voters arsenic they formed their ballots.

Voters accidental the economy is acold and distant the apical contented facing the country, followed distantly by migration and abortion. In a motion of inflation’s economical toll, astir 3 times arsenic galore voters consciousness they were falling down financially arsenic those who consciousness they were getting ahead.

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Supporters respond to aboriginal predetermination results during Democrat statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris' predetermination nighttime rally astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C., connected Nov. 5, 2024. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)

Harris besides faced the situation of decoupling herself from Biden but different ran an "expertly tally campaign," according to Philadelphia-based Democrat strategist Mustafa Rashed.

"It was going to beryllium hard to region herself from the sitting president; she couldn't usage him arsenic a surrogate due to the fact that helium was conscionable not an effectual surrogate," Rashed told Fox News Digital. "He's not large connected the run trail, and he's not fashionable capable to outweigh the downsides of having him arsenic your partner."

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Harris conceded to Trump implicit the telephone connected Wednesday greeting aft helium clinched a bulk of the electoral ballot overnight. She gave her concession code aboriginal successful the time astatine her alma mater, Howard University.

"The result of this predetermination is not what we hoped, not what we fought, not what we voted for," Harris said. "But perceive erstwhile I accidental … the airy of America’s committedness volition ever pain agleam arsenic agelong arsenic we ne'er springiness up and arsenic agelong arsenic we support fighting."

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Fox News Digital's Polling Unit contributed to this report.