{"id":8799,"date":"2024-11-09T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2024-11-09T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T15:10:32","slug":"i-spent-hours-trying-to-persuade-us-voters-to-choose-harris-not-trump-i-know-why-she-lost-oliver-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-spent-hours-trying-to-persuade-us-voters-to-choose-harris-not-trump-i-know-why-she-lost-oliver-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost &#8212; Oliver Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/nov\/09\/us-voters-kamala-harris-donald-trump-republican\">I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost | Oliver Hall | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After all those conversations, I think the main reason that Harris and Walz lost this campaign is simple: Trump. Ultimately, he was simply too much of a pull again. Despite the gaffes, despite his views on women, despite his distaste for democracy and despite an insurrection, voters just didn\u2019t care. For reasons that I\u2019m sure will be studied for decades, when he speaks, people listen. When he speaks, people believe him. After all those calls, I can be shocked at this result, but hardly surprised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost | Oliver Hall | The Guardian After all those conversations, I think the main reason that Harris and Walz lost this campaign is simple: Trump. Ultimately, he was simply too much of a pull again. Despite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-spent-hours-trying-to-persuade-us-voters-to-choose-harris-not-trump-i-know-why-she-lost-oliver-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost &#8212; Oliver Hall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}