Democrats’ Blame Game Misses Key Culprit

A key culprit behind the Democratic Party’s disastrous decision to elevate Kamala Harris to the top of the hierarchy is hiding in plain sight.

Democrats have already begun pointing fingers after Harris’s brutal defeat by former (and future) President Donald Trump. Party members are also taking their knives out for Joe Biden, who they say did not drop out of the race early enough for Kamala to ever have a chance. But what about the one man who helped pave the way for a candidate as weak and unpopular as Kamala? (Stream Daily Caller’s latest documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)

Let’s travel back a few years to 2020 when Biden was just a candidate. His campaign in the Democratic primary had stalled after poor showings in New Hampshire and Iowa. As Bernie Sanders was surging with all the momentum, Democratic South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the most prominent black member of Congress, stepped in to endorse Biden right before his state’s primary in February 2020. It was a huge deal at the time because it looked like Bernie was going to run away with the nomination. But Clyburn gave Biden’s campaign a lifeline and mobilized the many black voters throughout South Carolina to pick Joe over Bernie.

Months later, after Biden and Harris defeated Trump, Clyburn told CNN that he urged Biden to choose a black woman as his vice presidential running mate. At the time, the congressman seemed confident in his advice to pick a woman of color on the heels of a victory over the incumbent Trump.

“Joe and I talked about it several times when he was trying to make his decision,” Clyburn told CNN’s Dana Bash. “He had said it would be a woman. And I don’t mind saying now, I said to him in private that I thought that a lot of the results would turn on whether that woman (would) be a black woman.”

“I gave all my advice to him in private,” he went on to say. “But I’m very pleased that it was a black woman selected – I think it cemented his relationship to the black community.”

It’s safe to say Biden owed Clyburn a favor for the endorsement in the primary. And what better way to reward the black South Carolina lawmaker than to heed his demand and pick a black woman as his running mate?

So, as Democrats blame the shellacking on Biden himself, on all the racists and misogynists, the brainwashed Hispanics and brainwashed black men, on the white women who hate themselves and forfeited their rights when they voted for Trump, do not forget Jim Clyburn. Clyburn, who’s a bit of a sacred goat within the party, will likely escape criticism. I doubt Democrats are even aware he urged Biden to pick someone like Kamala in the first place. Even if they were, it wouldn’t matter. The left’s response to the loss so far reveals they lack the necessary self-awareness to admit that Kamala was a terrible candidate then, in 2020, and a terrible candidate now.