Defeated Democrats launch desperate post-election inquest raging at EVERYONE from Clooney to Pelosi for Kamala’s failure
DEJECTED Democrat infighting has reached fever pitch as a brutal blame game saw George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, and others in the firing line for Kamala Harris’s humiliating election defeat to Donald Trump.
Top Dems launched a desperate inquest into the party's disastrous result as Harris yesterday conceded the 2024 election.
She was slammed as being "out of touch" by a former Obama aide for wheeling out her millionaire celebrity pals to perform on the final campaign day.
Van Jones, a veteran political analyst and a long-term supporter of the Democrats, said her "star-studded" campaign will make working-class voters feel isolated.
The expert said that the last few events in the Harris campaign - filled with megastars like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Oprah Winfrey- felt eerily similar to the final days of Hillary Clinton’s failed White House bid in 2016.
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And now, the Democrats seem to have been left in shambles as a furious blame game has erupted in and outside the party.
From Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic representatives to major Hollywood A-listers, and even Kamala's own voters, everyone seems to be getting a piece of the blue rage.
The distraught Dems have turned on George Clooney after the actor requested Joe Biden resign before Trump's election triumph.
Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, has been heavily criticized for his influence during the election.
In a notable July op-ed for the New York Times, the 63-year-old actor from Ocean's Eleven urged Biden, 81, to get out of the race for president.
"We are not going to win in November with this president," he wrote.
Later, when Biden declared he would step down on July 21, leaving Kamala Harris to run a 107-day campaign to attempt to defeat Trump, Clooney commended him for being "selfless."
But Trump's incredible return to the White House on Wednesday marked the end of that campaign.
Biden confidants told top White House reporters last night that they blame the former speaker of the house for his withdrawal from the campaign.
While some Democrat insiders blamed every demographic imaginable, others accused Tim Walz of being too folksy, too left-wing, and too tainted by the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
Hispanic voters abandoned the party, too many Black men have shifted to Donald Trump since 2020, and not enough white women turned out for the Democrats.
Media pundits also conjectured that Joe Biden ought to have ended his campaign long before his dismal debate performance.
They contended that this would have either allowed for an open primary to choose a more formidable candidate or given Harris more time to establish herself.
President Biden, who is expected to deliver remarks on Thursday about the election results, also called his vice president to applaud her on a "historic campaign."
The president also spoke with Trump over the phone, congratulating him on his victory.
Biden invited his predecessor and soon-to-be successor to the White House for the traditional meeting of outgoing presidents and presidents-elect, NBC News reported.
Meanwhile, in Florida, President-elect Trump held a triumphant celebration in West Palm Beach on the eve of the election, declaring his campaign the "greatest political movement of all time."
Trump clinched the presidency when he captured the 10 Electoral Votes of , one of the seven swing states that pre-election polls had suggested stood tightly divided entering Election Day.
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Early victories in , , and all but guaranteed Trump .
Trump will now be the first former president in more than a century to serve non-consecutive second terms following his reelection defeat in 2020.
Democrats 'detached from reality', expert says
by Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
DEMOCRATS have been left stunned by their huge election defeat and have proved just how dangerously detached from reality they are, an expert says.
Dr. Alan Mendoza told The Sun that Kamala Harris and her downed Dems miserably lost out to Donald Trump after heavily underestimating voters' wants and needs.
The executive director for the think tank Henry Jackson Society, said the shock factor of the dismal failure can be linked back to a few crucial errors by the Harris administration.
"They've lost connection with the American mainstream," he told The Sun.
"I think there was just a lack of understanding of what the issues on the ground were.
"Four years of Democratic Presidential rule has not made Americans think that the party is capable of presiding over great success.
"If you looked at the exit polls huge numbers of people expressed dissatisfaction with what had happened.
"If your big issues are immigration and the economy and you're talking about reproductive rights then you're not connecting with the voters on the right sense.
"So I think nationally, Democrats are going to look at this election and go 'how do we rebuild from here? What do we need to do in order to reconnect that American mainstream that clearly we've lost.'"
The other reason Mendoza says the Democrats failed so miserably is due to underestimating Trump's national appeal.
Many on the Left saw the Republican as weak opposition due to his legal battles since losing out to Joe Biden in 2020.
Harris was seen as the safe option by many voters whereas Trump was regarded as a "risk."
This attitude left the Democrats severely underestimating the power that Trump commands on the average American.
"The left have always underestimated Donald Trump. They've always thought this guy shouldn't be allowed to win," he said.
"As a result of it they got sucker punched in 2016, and they got sucker punched again today.
"What they needed to do was campaign effectively against him and connect with the American people to make them convinced that he shouldn't win and instead they didn't do that."
Mendoza added that the past few weeks - including last night - is likely to have riled up Biden.
He said: "I think he's still annoyed he wasn't the candidate, I think there's a part of him that will feel vindicated by Kamala Harris' defeat.
"He will be thinking, I told them, only I could beat Donald Trump."
He also warned the Dems that casting the senior politician aside will only do them more harm in the long run.
"Biden's always been gaffe prone, and he was always likely to create a gaffe or two even if he wasn't the candidate," Mendoza said.
"Biden's an easy scapegoat, but I think it'd be a foolish one because the Democrats lost for more than just Joe Biden.
"They lost because they hadn't delivered for over four years and that's not necessarily Biden's fault.
"The worst thing Democrats could do from their perspective would be to blame Biden, and then pivot to the left."