One anecdote that explains why Harris lost the election,

 

JEFFREY ST, CLAIR 

 + If you’re looking for one anecdote that explains why Harris lost the election, this one is hard to top: According to a piece by Franklin Foer in the Atlantic, Harris’s early attempts at voicing a populist economic message, timid though it was, attacking corporate greed was quickly muted by one of her top economic advisors, her brother-in-law Tony West, the chief legal officer Tony West, who told her that if she wanted to curry favor with his network of CEO’s she’d have to lay off Big Business. So figures like Shawn Fain were replaced on the campaign trail with the likes of Mark Cuban.

+ In October, Harris appeared more times on the campaign trail with Mark Cuban than UAW president Shawn Fain and was escorted by Liz Cheney more often than anyone else.