Prominent journalist argues backlash against a black woman contributed to Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss

Former Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank believes he’s figured out why former Vice President Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

For Democrats, the mystery of Harris’s profound electoral loss to President Donald Trump is ever-deepening, as they seemingly can’t believe it marks a national rejection of their ideology and policies. They continue to blame everyone and everything but themselves, with Milbank claiming that “backlash against a black woman” is part of the reason she came up short.

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Kamala Harris lost because of “the backlash against a black woman.” Dana @Milbank, ex of @washingtonpost and now @NOTUSreports, on @ThisWeekABC: “Why did Democrats lose? Well, it’s like Captain obvious, right? Why did incumbent parties all around the world lose at that time, it… pic.twitter.com/J458IT4yTY

— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) May 24, 2026

“Why did Democrats lose? Well, it’s like Captain Obvious, right? Why did incumbent parties all around the world lose at that time? It was high inflation. And that was coupled with the problems of Biden staying in the race too long and the backlash against a Black woman being the Democratic nominee,” Milbank explained. “There you have it. Pretty simple right there.”

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) 2024 “autopsy,” which was released a few days ago, indicated several other issues the party faces as a whole, because of course.

“In the face of misinformation and disinformation, our candidates have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away. Indeed, many of our critical Democratic wins can be attributed to negative partisanship — where Republicans have nominated deeply flawed candidates.”

But there was at least one self-aware moment in the report: Former President Joe Biden’s ill-fated choice to make Harris the “border czar.”

“Democrats won the election, and President Biden assigned the Vice President a brief including immigration, which was poorly framed by Republicans as the ‘border czar.’ It was not the official title, but it was the one that the media propagated and the White House failed to contradict or correct,” it reads.

X users reacted to the moment:

Harris lost because she had no message other than brat summer. She quietly had to endorse Biden failures instead of striking her own path, but she’s too much of an alcoholic with no real talent to do that.

— 翻訳なら#hodgster (@matth0dge) May 24, 2026

No, she lost because she’s an idiot who has accomplished nothing in her political career outside of jailing African Americans for drug offenses.

— earl lalone (@ej62564) May 24, 2026

For those who haven’t figured it out yet, Biden immediately endorsed Kamela after he was pushed out and secured her as the “nominee” in revenge for what the Democrat Party did to him because he knew she was an unelectable, cackling buffoon (and she is)

Nice work, Joe❗️😃 pic.twitter.com/A8s2C8nlt9

— Scott Dog (@ScottDog6) May 24, 2026

How do Democrats keep winning elections when they have no capacity for logic?

Kamala Harris was the worst candidate the Democrats have ever pushed into power, but of course, they blame racism and sexism.

— Morgan Tanner (@EuripidesTruths) May 24, 2026

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