Former Fox News host Geraldo Riviera has provided a blistering explanation of why Kamala Harris lost last week’s presidential election to Donald Trump.
Geraldo admits he voted for Kamala and acknowledges that she “ran a pretty good campaign under difficult circumstances” after President Joe Biden stepped aside in July.
Geraldo said he believed Trump’s campaign was able to play on immigration fears and “wokeness” by framing the election as a battle for American identity.
Kamala, meanwhile, struggled to connect with voters as she failed to differentiate her platform or reassure a country wary of change, Geraldo says.
Former Fox News host Geraldo Riviera has provided a blistering explanation of why Kamala Harris lost last week’s presidential election to Donald Trump.
Geraldo admits he voted for Kamala and acknowledges that she “ran a pretty good campaign under difficult circumstances” after President Joe Biden stepped aside in July. Trump and Geraldo are seen together in October 2017 after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico
“Excuse me, I voted for Kamala Harris,” he begs his 400,000 followers.
“When that bloodless coup was over and President Biden reluctantly stepped aside, she went to work, a candidate for the history books,” Geraldo proclaims.
“Black, South Asian and a woman, each of these categories was a big first. Yet the vice president was crushed in an election disaster.”
Geraldo notes that Trump’s gains in demographics that have little in common with his base essentially proves that Kamala faced such broad opposition that she was unlikely to ever win.
“When you learn the breadth and depth of her defeat among the white working class, black and Hispanic young men, 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 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’s candidacy,” Geraldo writes.
Geraldo believes Kamala Harris struggled to connect with voters because she failed to differentiate her platform or reassure a country wary of change
In a victory his supporters are calling the ‘greatest comeback in history’, Trump has won a decisive victory, with Geraldo drawing comparisons to Napoleon’s legendary return in 1815
“Donald Trump has proven that he is in a class of his own, the real Teflon Don.”
Geraldo goes on to argue that despite everything that would make a candidate unfit: twice impeached, serially indicted, liable for assault that inflated the value of his property, the very definition of inappropriate, Trump was still able to win a major victory.
“He’s the sore loser who put his grievances before his country, before the Constitution he swore to protect and defend, yet he won overwhelmingly,” Geraldo tweeted, noting that “it’s easier to tell what happened happened than to think about what happened. Why.’
In a victory his supporters are calling the “greatest comeback in history,” Trump has won a decisive victory, with Geraldo drawing comparisons to Napoleon’s legendary return in 1815.
Despite numerous controversies and legal challenges, Geraldo says Trump’s impressive achievements expose a deep divide between coastal elites and America’s heartland, where his appeal as a defiant, larger-than-life figure remains unparalleled.
Geraldo says Kamala lost “above all, she was not Trump, larger than life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts.” Trump is pictured reacting after an assassination attempt during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania in July
“A significant majority of Americans clearly see something in President Trump that most people in the media or who live on the coasts do not. He is a force of nature, extremely confident and strategic.”
Geraldo describes Trump’s path to victory, shaped by two key strategies.
First, he worked relentlessly to fend off legal battles, accusing his opponents of waging “litigation” to undermine his campaign – he was able to block every legal proceeding against him with endless motions and appeals,
The second, and perhaps more effective, approach was to demonize illegal immigrants.
By portraying undocumented immigrants as existential threats to the nation, Trump played on widespread concerns and created a narrative of a country under siege.
‘He made undocumented people synonymous with rapists and murderers. They poisoned the blood of the land, vermin, animals, dog and cat eaters of floating islands of garbage,” wrote Geraldo.
‘It was incredibly effective. He made Americans believe that the country we all love was being stolen out from under us.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, on the other hand, emphasized issues of diversity, equality and inclusivity.
Trump supporters created AI-generated puppy and kitten posts on social media to warn people that illegal migrants will ‘barbecue pets’ if Kamala Harris wins the election: ‘Don’t eat us!’
Critics say her message resonated with many voters, who saw it as out of reach.
Issues of gender fluidity and cultural shifts became flashpoints, with Trump portraying such 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 that was completely out of touch with tens of millions of Americans who feared a guy in a dress demanding to play on the girls volleyball team or use the ladies.” Room.’
‘Trump destroyed wokeness. He turned the election into an us vs. them/them, shamelessly exaggerating the modest steps toward gender fluidity until it seemed like every inmate in federal prison was lining up to get a taxpayer-funded sex change ‘ he wrote.
The strongest support for Harris by far came from black women voters, where she received 83% of the vote, compared to 16% for Trump.
Geraldo says he believes Kamala struggled to connect with voters on a personal level and differentiate her policies from those of President Biden.
“She seemed incapable of providing ad lib answers, even in the friendliest of locations. She was never able to articulate how her presidency would differ from Joe Biden’s. Nor has she reassured a tradition-conscious nation that she would not upend our age-old norms.
“Mostly, she wasn’t Trump, larger than life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s unyielding self-confidence and theatrical personality – described by Geraldo as “Godzilla in a suit” – reinforced his image as a champion of free enterprise and the American Dream.