The shambling corpse of the Harris-Walz marketing campaign has despatched out a clueless post-election survey asking supporters which of their rejected insurance policies and techniques they need to proceed peddling “to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot in 2025 and beyond.”
The marketing campaign — which chewed via an astonishing $1.5 billion and wound up over $20 million in debt in simply 15 weeks — even has the gall to conclude the quiz by passing the hat round for extra cash.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ “Harris Fight Fund” is the supposed beneficiary of the sly fundraising effort, which just lately got here beneath hearth for shamelessly trying to boost cash to repay election-related bills — together with some distributors it had stiffed for funds.
Questions on the survey take jabs at President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda, which voters resoundingly supported within the voting cubicles lower than a month in the past, delivering the primary well-liked vote victory claimed by a GOP candidate in a technology.
“Which of President Trump’s priorities do you find most troubling?” the survey begins, asking respondents to decide on amongst choices like “enacting mass deportations,” “slashing taxes for the ultra-wealthy,” “gutting abortion access” and “attacking the fundamental rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.”
It goes on to ask how the Democratic Social gathering can finest hamper Trump’s agenda, meekly acknowledging they are going to be within the minority as soon as the following Congress begins in January and together with choices like “blocking appointment of right-wing judges” and “protecting federal agencies,” ostensibly a reference to the nascent Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, set to be helmed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Subsequent it asks respondents to weigh in on “electoral issues and messages” Dems operating for workplace throughout Trump’s second time period ought to prioritize, adopted by a dizzying checklist of imprecise, substance-free guarantees that failed to energise their base lower than 30 days in the past, together with “creating good-paying jobs” and “making debt-free college a reality.”
The survey additionally asks the way it can enhance its outreach in future elections, together with response choices like “showing voters that Democrats care by volunteering in the community” and “focusing on messaging that connects with undecided voters.”
Lastly, it asks supporters what their “top priority” is, together with decisions like “fighting back against Donald Trump’s harmful agenda.”
It then cajoles respondents to “reaffirm their commitment to a strong Democratic Party and standing up to Trump” by “chipping in” with one other donation (they counsel $50, however all quantities welcome), promising contributors their “grassroots support powers our party,” full with an asterisk that has no corresponding footnote.
