Kamala left Bernie out in the cold

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ Favorability with Independent Voters

Bernie Sanders: 41-41 (even)
Elon Musk: 42-43 (-1)
JD Vance 34-42 (-8)
Tim Walz: 32-41 (-9)
Kamala Harris: 39-51 (-12)
Liz Cheney: 24-36 (-12)
Donald Trump: 40-53 (-13)
Joe Biden: 29-62 (-33)

Source: Economist/YouGov.

Trump embraced Musk, and Kamala left Bernie out in the cold. You wonder what analytics the Harris campaign was looking at. Or did they go Old School, i.e., what would Jamie Dimon want?

+ But it wasn’t just Bernie Harris rejected; it was also Tim Walz, whose role in the campaign was limited to emphasizing his career as a (assistant, as Trump acidly noted) high school football coach and duck hunter. As a result, Walz became so unrecognizable that he lost his own county, which Biden won handily in 2020.