Hillary Clinton's loss to Trump could be instructive for Kamala Harris

Democrats who remember 2016 and the loss of Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump say they are better prepared this time around as another female candidate who isn't well-liked faces the former president, according to a USA Today piece.

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris say 2024 is different from 2016 in that the overturning of Roe V. Wade makes voting more urgent for those who are pro-choice.

Another thing that makes 2024 different is that Trump is now a "known quantity" in their view, the piece read.

In addition, voters in 2016 didn't know the extent that paid trolls were used to influence voters on social media.

"Block the trolls"

“We would respond to outrageous lies about Hillary and the pizza parlor on social media without knowing they were paid trolls,” "Hillary girl" Francesca Hagadus said. “Now, we just block the trolls and volunteer to get out the vote instead."

Voter turnout was the highest ever in 2020, leaving some questions about what it will be like this time around.

Some of the absentee voting that was instituted during COVID-19 has now gone away, but some has not.

The fact that Harris would make history as the first woman president and also the first woman of color to become president.

Can she do it?

The history-making aspect of the election may not be enough to push Harris over the top, however.

That's because she has been deeply unpopular for her entire tenure as vice president, and early polls with her as the nominee show that she trails Trump already.

The Democrats' hide-the-candidate strategy (Harris has not given an interview yet) may completely backfire on them given that people already don't like her.

Trump is already poking at her weaknesses, such as the tendency to nervous laughter when she is put in a tight spot.

"Laughing Kamala"

"I call her 'laughing Kamala,'"Trump said at a July 20 rally in Michigan. "She's crazy. You can tell a lot by a laugh."

Last week in North Carolina, Trump called her "the most incompetent and far-left vice president in history."