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Biden won in 2020. He did so by appealing to the left, bringing the left into the DNC coalition, and growing a coalition to win.
Harris pivoted to the right from the positions of the 2020 Democratic platform. She picked Liz Cheney as the person to bring into stage, and to give a DNC five minute talking spot to a Republican war hawk instead of a Gazan, actual DNC delegate.
Harris MADE these decisions. And it was fucking stupid. And it was stupid then. It was obvious where the voters were. She CHOSE not to go get them.
4 years of right wing voter suppression isn't as easy to hand wave away.
Bruh they couldn't even get their own voters out. The ones who voted for them in 2020.
That's not voter suppression. It's a failure of leadership on the part of Democrats for the duration of the Biden presidency, and a refusal on the part of Harris to acknowledge and chart a new course.
The DNC campaigned to fail in 2024, and it was obvious the entire time.
If they make it physically harder to go out and vote, such as closing polling stations, if they use misinformation campaigns those will affect the turn out. Yes Kamala not having a Palestinian go on to talk was deplorable, she should have done more. However trump said he would be a dictator on day one, deport immigrants, and tons of other fascist shit and those same people you said couldn't even turn up to vote for their own party were ok with what trump was going to do.