{"id":2365248,"date":"2024-11-06T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-campaign-surrogate-suggests-party-will-undergo-soul-searching-after-loss-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T21:49:08","slug":"harris-campaign-surrogate-suggests-party-will-undergo-soul-searching-after-loss-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-campaign-surrogate-suggests-party-will-undergo-soul-searching-after-loss-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris campaign surrogate suggests party will undergo \u2018soul-searching\u2019 after loss &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-campaign-surrogate-suggests-party-will-undergo-soul-searching-after-loss-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2365248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Lindy Li, a surrogate \u200bfor the Harris-Walz campaign, \u200bsuggested that the Democratic Party needs to engage in serious self-reflection following its loss in the 2024 presidential election. She noted that traditional\u2062 Democratic voting blocs,\u2064 including\u2063 youth,\u2064 Latino, and African American \u2063voters, shifted \u200btheir support to President-elect Donald Trump,\u200c leading to Trump&#8217;s complete sweep of key &#8220;blue wall&#8221;\u200d states \u200blike Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Li \u200cemphasized the importance of recognizing this\u2062 shift to avoid \u200bfuture losses, \u2062expressing \u2062concern about the lack\u2063 of meaningful support from\u2063 female \u2063voters. Additionally, she criticized Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s choice of\u200d running\u200c mate, \u200csuggesting that\u2062 selecting Governor Josh Shapiro instead of Governor Tim Walz could have improved\u200b their chances. Li indicated\u200c that without an honest assessment of these dynamics, the party\u200b risks\u2063 continuing\u200d to lose ground in future elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Harris campaign surrogate suggests party will undergo &lsquo;soul-searching&rsquo; after loss<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1875154\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Harris-Walz campaign surrogate Lindy Li argued that the Democratic Party will have to properly assess why it lost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 presidential election<\/a>, as some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">voting<\/a> blocs that have reliably supported Democrats ditched the party in favor of President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Li, a member of the campaign&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-clinton-operative-charged-with-securities-fraud\/\" title=\"Former Clinton Operative Charged With Securities Fraud\">national finance committee<\/a>, said the party was hoping to hold on to at least one of the &ldquo;blue wall&rdquo; states in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Electoral College<\/a>, though Trump ended up winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in a &ldquo;full sweep.&rdquo; She added that supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are in &ldquo;a state of shock&rdquo; due to the loss of voters the campaign experienced.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The gender gap that we were pining for did not materialize in a meaningful extent, and obviously, youth and Latinos and African Americans, a lot of them went over to Trump,&rdquo; Li said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America Reports<\/em>. &ldquo;So there&rsquo;s going to be a lot of soul-searching in the next couple of days. I hope that we can do an honest assessment and not criticize the people who have ideas and solutions about how we can move forward, because if we do not acknowledge the rightward turn of America, we&rsquo;re going to keep losing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2684720&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=8faf8be387b2096dd9ecf2c62881d78b\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ahead of the election, polling data indicated that Trump&rsquo;s support among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-meets-latino-leaders-after-new-poll-shows-him-11-points-ahead-harris-key-voting-bloc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Latino<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-harris-neck-neck-dems-lose-ground-among-latino-black-voters-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">black supporters<\/a> was much stronger than in previous election years, outpacing Harris&rsquo;s support from the former voting bloc. The former president also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3193261\/2024-election-trump-harris-campaigns-podcast-interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">participated in multiple podcast interviews to reach out to younger voters<\/a>, particularly Generation Z male voters.<\/p>\n<p>In reflecting on Harris&rsquo;s loss, Li suggested that Harris made the wrong choice in picking Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tim-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tim Walz<\/a> (D-MN) as her running mate and should have instead picked Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/josh-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Josh Shapiro<\/a> (D-PA). Li, a Pennsylvania resident, admitted she is &ldquo;biased&rdquo; in her assessment, though contended that Shapiro could have made &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-try-to-blunt-slotkin-fundraising-edge-in-michigan-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Republicans try to blunt Slotkin fundraising edge in Michigan - Washington Examiner\">huge difference&#038;rdquo<\/a>; because he is a centrist governor who is very popular in his state.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Li also argued that Harris made a mistake in her interview on <em>The View<\/em> last month, in which the vice president said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3180914\/harris-the-view-no-change-biden-policy-republican-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">she would not have changed anything<\/a> from her and President Joe Biden&rsquo;s leadership in the last four years. Li assessed that voters are &ldquo;dying for difference&rdquo; from the Biden administration and that Harris&rsquo;s statement &ldquo;heard &rsquo;round the world&rdquo; seriously hurt her ability to portray herself as a change candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3210669\/donald-trump-wins-2024-election-defeating-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump&rsquo;s victory in the 2024 election was solidified Wednesday morning<\/a> after the former president won Wisconsin in the Electoral College, one of several swing states he lost in 2020 but reclaimed this year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">vice president contacted<\/a> the president-elect on Wednesday to concede the race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1875154\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1875154\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris campaign surrogate calls for party &#8216;soul-searching&#8217; post-loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2365249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Lindy-Li-assessment-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23938,4087,4021,23843],"class_list":["post-2365248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-soul-searching","tag-campaign","tag-harris","tag-surrogate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Lindy-Li-assessment-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365252,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365248\/revisions\/2365252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}