Former Fox News host Geraldo Riviera has forcefully explained why Kamala Harris lost last week’s presidential election to Donald Trump.
Geraldo admits he voted for Kamala, acknowledging that she “ran a pretty good campaign under difficult circumstances” after President Joe Biden resigned in July.
Geraldo says he believed the Trump campaign was able to capitalize on fears about immigration and “wokeness,” framing the election as a battle over American identity.
Meanwhile, Kamala struggled to connect with voters, failing to distinguish her platform or reassure a nation wary of change, Geraldo says.
Former Fox News host Geraldo Riviera has forcefully explained why Kamala Harris lost last week’s presidential election to Donald Trump.
Geraldo admits he voted for Kamala, acknowledging that she “ran a pretty good campaign under difficult circumstances” after President Joe Biden resigned in July. Trump and Geraldo are seen together in October 2017 after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico.
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Kamala Harris,” she pleads with her 400,000 followers.
“Once that bloodless coup was over and President Biden reluctantly stepped aside, she got to work, as a candidate for the history books,” Geraldo proclaims.
‘Black, South Asian and a woman, each of those categories was a big first. However, the vice president was overwhelmingly defeated in the election.”
Geraldo points out that Trump’s advance in demographic groups that have little in common with his base essentially demonstrates that Kamala faced such a breadth of opposition that she was unlikely to ever win.
‘Knowing the breadth and depth of her defeat, among the white working class, black and Hispanic youth, working women, farmers, police officers, factory workers and others, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that she never had a chance.
“Women decided that the big, bad Trump was preferable to fighting the demons of the economy, immigration and crime, despite Oprah and Taylor Swift, and despite the historic nature of Harris’ candidacy,” writes Geraldo .
Geraldo believes Kamala Harris struggled to connect with voters, failing to distinguish her platform and reassuring a nation wary of change.
In a victory his supporters call the ‘greatest comeback in history,’ Trump secured a decisive victory, and Geraldo draws comparisons to Napoleon’s legendary comeback in 1815.
“Donald Trump proved he’s in a league of his own, the real Don Teflon.”
Geraldo goes on to claim that despite everything that would make a candidate unfit – twice accused, serially accused, responsible for sexual assault that inflated the value of his properties, the definition of inappropriate – Trump was still able to win big. .
“He is the sore loser who put his grievances before those of his country, before the Constitution he swore to protect and defend, and yet won overwhelmingly,” Geraldo tweeted, noting that “it is easier to tell what happened than to calculate it.” because.’
In a victory his supporters call the ‘greatest comeback in history’, Trump has achieved a decisive victory, and Geraldo draws comparisons to Napoleon’s legendary comeback in 1815.
Despite numerous controversies and legal challenges, Geraldo says Trump’s dominant performance reveals a deep divide between coastal elites and the American heartland, where his appeal as a defiant, larger-than-life figure remains unmatched.
Geraldo says Kamala lost “mainly because she wasn’t Trump, the larger-than-life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts.” Here, Trump reacts after an assassination attempt at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
‘A significant majority of Americans obviously see something in President Trump that most of the media or those who live on the coasts don’t. He is a force of nature, extremely confident and strategic.
Geraldo describes Trump’s path to victory marked by two key strategies.
First, he worked tirelessly to defend himself against legal battles, accusing his opponents of waging a ‘legal war’ to undermine his campaign: he was able to stymie every legal proceeding against him with endless motions and appeals,
The second, and perhaps more effective, approach was to demonize illegal immigrants.
By presenting undocumented immigrants as existential threats to the nation, Trump tapped into widespread anxieties, creating a narrative of a country under siege.
‘He made undocumented immigrants synonymous with rapists and murderers. They were poisoning the blood of the country, bugs, animals, dog and cat eaters from floating islands of garbage,’ Geraldo wrote.
“It was tremendously effective. It made Americans believe that the country we all love was being taken away from us.
In contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party emphasized issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trump supporters created social media posts about AI-generated puppies and kittens to warn people how illegal immigrants will “roast their pets” if Kamala Harris wins the election: “Don’t eat us!”
Critics argue that his message failed with many voters, who perceived him as out of touch.
Issues such as gender fluidity and cultural changes became flashpoints, and Trump described those changes as threats to traditional American values.
Geraldo is brutal in his assessment of Kamala’s performance: “It was an unfortunate and tone-deaf response, totally out of touch with tens of millions of Americans afraid that some guy in a dress would demand to play on the women’s volleyball team or use the equipment.” female”. Room.’
‘Trump swept the awakening. “He made the election an Us versus Them/Them, shamelessly exaggerating the modest moves toward gender fluidity until it seemed like every prisoner in a federal prison was lining up for a taxpayer-funded sex change,” he wrote.
Harris’s strongest support by far came from black women voters, where she received 83% of the vote, to Trump’s 16%.
Geraldo says he believes Kamala had difficulty connecting with voters on a personal level and distinguishing her policies from those of President Biden.
”She didn’t seem able to improvise responses even in the friendliest of places. He was never able to articulate how his presidency would be different from Joe Biden’s. Nor did he assure a traditionally minded nation that he would not alter our centuries-old norms.
“Basically, she was not Trump, larger than life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s unwavering confidence and theatrical persona (dubbed by Geraldo as ‘Godzilla in a suit’) reinforced his image as a champion of free enterprise and the American dream.