Harris’ refusal to throw Biden ‘under the bus’ fueled brutal election loss: Columnist

Kamala Harris squandered the many chances she had on the campaign trail to distance herself from the unpopular incumbent president who she replaced on the Democratic ticket, and that calculation likely contributed to her bruising election night loss, a Washington Post columnist said Thursday.

“I think we will be litigating this and relitigating this for many years to come,” Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell told CNN’s Abby Phillip Thursday during an appearance on “NewsNight.”

Rampell continued her post-election analysis by saying that President Joe Biden should have dropped out of the 2024 race earlier, adding: “and Kamala Harris wasted many a golden opportunity to distance herself from him – to throw him under the bus – she had many, many chances to do so…which the public wanted right? I mean voters were eager for change.”

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Instead, Rampell told the CNN panel Thursday, that Harris not only refused to distance herself from Biden, but she in a way even “enhanced the Bidenomics agenda.”

“She hired a lot of the same people, she had a lot of the same messaging, and in fact, a more left-wing version, in some cases of that messaging,” Rampell said.

The columnist said she was perplexed by the vice president not taking the opportunity to rebrand her campaign, given that the one thing “Americans disliked most about Joe Biden was Bidenomics.”

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