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I Have Four Words for Kamala Harris
Too little too late
I’m a little peeved right now. After Harris’s dire warnings about threats to our democracy during the 2024 campaign and her insistence that Donald Trump would do precisely what he said he would do, I have a question: Where have you been since he took office?
Trump won the election with a measly 1.5% lead. Why did Harris not call for a hand-count of swing state ballots after all seven swing states miraculously voted for Trump?
Several data analysts and journalists have written about this. One wrote directly to Harris, begging her to call for a hand-count in just a couple of swing states because circumstances surrounding the last minute swing state shifts caused so much concern.
It wasn’t just that Trump won, it was the fact that momentum for Harris and pre-election polling both indicated that she was ahead. Everybody saw it with their own eyes. And we were flabbergasted when Trump somehow managed to wrangle exactly enough votes in key counties to eke out a victory.
But despite requests to quell our concerns, Harris did not request a hand-count — presumably because the optics weren’t good.
With the passage of time, we now have additional evidence to suggest that illegal voter suppression tactics may have played a deciding…
