Opinion: Kamala Harris was a bad candidate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In Starr County, Texas, which is 97% Latino, Trump was the first Republican to earn a majority in almost 130 years.
48% : Top-ranked podcaster Joe Rogan was told if he wanted to interview her as he had Trump, he would need to fly to her location and be time-limited.
35% : Trump and Vance, meanwhile, each seemed to understand that most Americans listed the economy and immigration as their top two issues, and that the issue extended to pretty much every demographic in the country.
33% : I'd argue that while the hatred for Trump from those who opposed his candidacy had been nothing short of irrational from the get-go, Republican voters should look next time for someone who doesn't routinely give their detractors ammunition they crave.
32% : And they're more likely to fear the consequences of the 10 million people who have entered our country by crossing the southern border illegally -- including over 390 on the terror watchlist -- than they are concerned that Trump might be the next Hitler.
30% : But if Trump had lost, I'd surmise that the mean tweets irritated more than they amused.
26% : As Trump showed us in 2016 and again last week, even the most ridiculous characters can earn the trust of voters if they connect with them on the issues that matter.
23% : In all fairness, plenty of Harris/Walz supporters -- the ones that came included in the presidential nominee handoff package as ones who would vote for anybody in order to defeat Trump -- cited anger over abortion law changes and fears about democracy as their top issues.
21% : Had Tuesday's election gone the other way, I'd be dedicating this column to hashing all of the reasons Trump lost.
7% : Five years ago, Harris supported banning fracking and called Trump's border wall "stupid," and "wasteful," a "vanity project."

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