Inside the moments Kamala Harris revealed to Americans she was unfit to be president as Donald Trump sweeps 2024 election

Kamala Harris' chances astatine predetermination triumph came to a accelerated halt successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday greeting arsenic she mislaid cardinal plaything states and retreated into silence. 

While Democratic strategists volition walk the coming weeks poring implicit voting information to relationship for the Vice President's unraveling astatine the ballot box, for Americans the crushed for the nonaccomplishment is crystal wide - she was a weak, gaffe-prone campaigner who failed to link with voters. 

Ascended into candidacy by the Democrats who turned connected Joe Biden mid-summer, Kamala had small clip to drawback up. 

But she failed astatine astir each accidental during the four-month model she had to marque an impact. 

Dodging interviews and nationalist appearances, flip-flopping connected cardinal issues and rolling retired a parade of varied accents to present a agelong paper of connection salads, the voters didn't bargain it - and they spoke loudly astatine the polls. 

Here's a look backmost astatine each the ways the Democrat campaigner missed the people successful her 13-week campaign, that volition spell down successful past arsenic 1 of the astir disastrous.  

REFUSING HARD INTERVIEWS - AND FAILING THOSE SHE ATTEMPTED 

US presidents request galore skills, but possibly the astir important is being a bully communicator.

Harris, however, avoided opening her rima during the archetypal 3 weeks of a lackluster campaign.

When she yet sat down for a tv interview, with CNN's Dana Bash connected August 29, she showed up with moving mate Tim Walz to clasp her hand.

It was not until mid-September that Harris had her archetypal solo interview, with a section ABC News presumption successful the cardinal swing state of Pennsylvania.

This risk-averse attack gave Harris and her run squad maximum power implicit their message.

But to voters, it looked similar she was frightened of saying the incorrect thing.

Critics said Harris had thing to hide, oregon was not definite of her argumentation positions.

Ahead of polling day, New Hampshire elector Jim Olivera, 58, said helium did not deliberation Harris was 'pulling the strings.'

'It comes crossed similar there's idiosyncratic down the scenes, and they're telling her what to say,' helium told DailyMail.com.

Then followed a disastrous, fiery sit-down with Fox News' Bret Baier, wherever she focused connected Trump and the network's editing choices, and failed to pass immoderate benignant of wide message.  

THE FAKE ACCENTS

Say what you similar astir Trump, but the erstwhile president is seldom accused of being inauthentic.

That's not the lawsuit for Harris, 60, who faced ongoing disapproval for deploying 'fake accents' successful public.

While Harris is of Jamaican and Indian descent, she's been lampooned for changing her dependable and cadence depending connected the race, people and different demographics of her audience.

Most recently, viewers blasted her 'fake hood' dependable successful her SNL appearance.

While speaking astatine a religion successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was mocked for preaching similar a confederate Baptist clergyman.

In September, Harris was accused of faking an municipality accent to subordinate to moving people voters successful Detroit, Michigan.

'These fake accents would beryllium atrocious enough, if she was adjacent halfway decent astatine them, but this is conscionable pathetic,' posted 1 of her online critics.

'You cognize it's atrocious if I'm embarrassed for her.'

THE WRONG PODCAST

A comparatively caller media format came into its ain during the 2024 statesmanlike contest: the podcast.

Trump utilized them to afloat effect, securing millions of downloads from sit-downs with specified deed podcasters arsenic Logan Paul and Theo Von.

Harris besides dabbled successful downloads, but failed to shine.

Her quality past period connected Call Her Daddy, a deed podcast aimed astatine younger women, backfired successful spectacular fashion.

Listeners slammed big Alexandra Cooper for 'softball' questions to Harris implicit the warfare successful Gaza oregon her administration's effect to hurricanes.

They called the download 'propaganda' that ludicrously tried to walk disconnected Harris arsenic a hep Gen Zer.

'Unsubscribed and unfollowed,' wrote 1 instrumentality successful the comments.

Worse inactive is the podcast that Harris dodged: the Joe Rogan Experience.

Trump and his moving mate JD Vance each chatted with Rogan for hours connected the show, which has a whopping 18 cardinal subscribers.

Rogan invited Harris, but said she lone agreed to grounds for 45 minutes and refused to question to his workplace successful Austin, Texas.

Some younger voters said they soured connected Harris because she did not instrumentality part. 

FRIES OR LIES?

Harris' statesmanlike bid got bogged down implicit whether she had lied astir her clip moving astatine McDonald's arsenic a youngster.

The run insists that Harris worked astatine a McDonald's outlet connected Central Avenue successful Alameda, California during the summertime aft her freshman twelvemonth astatine Howard University successful 1983.

But Republicans questioned whether she'd made up the occupation to look similar a much regular, moving American.

The New York Times cited a precocious schoolhouse of person of Harris with recollections of her job, but nary photos oregon different records person been produced to beryllium it occurred.

Staff astatine the edifice person reportedly been sworn to secrecy and erstwhile DailyMail.com contacted them to ask, an worker replied 'no, sorry'.

Trump capitalized the controversy, getting down the fryer astatine a McDonald's successful the Philadelphia suburbs and serving up fries and different meals astatine the drive-thru counter.

'I've present worked for 15 minutes much than Kamala,' helium quipped.

WORD SALAD AFTER WORD SALAD

Public speaking is simply a pugnacious skill, and adjacent bully orators person their disconnected days.

But for Harris, they happened excessively often for idiosyncratic seeking specified a high-profile gig.

When asked nonstop questions, she often answered successful meandering, jumbled sentences without a conclusion.

They adjacent got a name: the 'word salad.'

A heckler astatine a rally successful Reno, Nevada, past period lured Harris into 1 specified oratory.

'You cognize what? Let maine accidental thing astir this,' Harris said amid the disruption.

'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,' she rambled.

'What we are looking astatine is simply a quality successful this predetermination — let's determination guardant and spot wherever we are due to the fact that connected the issue, for example, state of choice…'

There were galore different examples.

Democratic campaigners were near scratching their heads by Harris' flustered quality astatine a high-stakes CNN municipality hallway conscionable 13 days from the election.

She could not supply wide answers connected either home oregon overseas policy, and meandered passim the 90-minute session

Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod, who helped get Barack Obama elected and served arsenic 1 of his apical advisers, summed up the show as: 'Word crockery city.'

'When she doesn't privation to reply a question, her wont is to benignant of spell to connection crockery city, and she did that successful a mates of questions,' Axelrod said.

FLIP FLOPPING ON ISSUES  

Good politicians person a knack for softly changing their argumentation positions.

But Harris did not negociate to U-turn discreetly.

As a legislator backmost successful 2019, Harris said she would prohibition fracking, a method of earthy state extraction.

In her 20204 race, however, she reversed people — arsenic she needed to triumph successful battleground Pennsylvania, wherever fracking is captious to the economy.

The aforesaid went for immigration. She erstwhile called Trump's partition gathering connected the confederate borderline during his archetypal word 'un-American.'

But erstwhile it became wide that unchecked migration was a deal-breaker for voters, she reversed course, and vowed to walk hundreds of millions of dollars connected the frontier.

She's besides accused of flip-flopping connected everything from legalizing marijuana to integrative straws.

When asked astir immoderate of these shifts, Harris told CNN that her policies whitethorn person shifted, but her 'values person not changed.'

The voters, it seems, were not convinced.

PHONE FAKER 

Sadly for Harris, the gaffes kept connected coming each the mode up until predetermination day.

She was caught successful an embarrassing gaffe aft flipping her smartphone astir to the cameras portion claiming to beryllium 'on the telephone with a voter.'

The occupation was, she wasn't connected a telephone astatine all.

'Have you voted already?' a beaming Harris said into the phone.

Then she paused arsenic though listening, earlier exclaiming: 'You did, convey you!'

The vice president past turned her telephone surface astir to adoring supporters astatine the Democrat party's Washington, DC headquarters, who applauded and cheered.

Viewers astatine location were lightning speedy to constituent retired that her telephone appeared to amusement she had the camera app unfastened and was not connected a telephone call.

'Kamala conscionable pretended to speech to a elector connected the telephone but mistakenly showed that her telephone was unfastened to the camera app,' 1 spectator wrote connected X.

'LMAO... everything astir Kamala is fake and staged.'

In a akin gaffe, Harris was panned for a door-knocking photo-op successful Pennsylvania that to galore looked staged.

Harris joined canvassers successful Reading, wherever they walked up to a structure wherever 1 household was lasting outside, saying: 'Hi guys… atrocious for the intrusion.'

But online viewers noted however the enactment and embraces looked staged – particularly erstwhile Harris asked the householders to determination to the doorway to beryllium successful presumption of the cameras.

One idiosyncratic called it 'fake doorway knock,' and 'Humiliating!'

THE LONG GOODBYE

It was wide overnight connected Tuesday that Trump had an insurmountable lead, but Harris's last gaffe was however agelong she took to concede the election.

She yet appeared precocious Wednesday day to admit decision to a monolithic assemblage of supporters astatine Howard University, her alma mater. 

'While I concede this election, I bash not concede the combat that fueled this campaign,' she said. 

That was astir 12 hours aft the predetermination was called for her Republican rival. 

Ahead of her speech, Harris called Trump to congratulate him and promote him to beryllium a president for each Americans. 

As her run deflated, Harris was criticized for being a sore loser by not throwing successful the towel.

She was connected way to bash worse than Hillary Clinton successful the 2016 race, and whitethorn extremity up with less Electoral College votes than immoderate Democrat since 1988.