Former Fox News host Geraldo Riviera has delivered a blistering takedown as to why Kamala Harris lost last week’s presidential election against Donald Trump.
Geraldo admits that he voted for Kamala, acknowledging that she ‘ran a pretty good campaign under tough circumstances’ after President Joe Biden stepped aside in July.
Geraldo says he believed Trump’s campaign was able to capitalize on fears about immigration and ‘wokeness’, framing the election as a battle for America’s identity.
Kamala, meanwhile, struggled to connect with voters, failing to distinguish her platform or reassure a nation wary of change, Geraldo says.
‘Don’t blame me, I voted for Kamala Harris’, he pleads to his 400,000 followers.
‘Once 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, every one of those categories was a grand first. Yet the Vice President got crushed in an election landslide.’
Geraldo notes that Trump’s gain across demographics that have little in common with his base essentially prove Kamala faced such a breadth of opposition she was unlikely to ever win over.
‘Learning the breadth and depth of her defeat, among white working class, Black and Hispanic young men, working women, farmers, cops, factory workers and others, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that she never had a chance.
‘Women decided big, bad Trump was preferable to battle the demons of the economy, immigration and crime, despite Oprah and Taylor Swift, and despite the historic nature of the Harris candidacy,’ Geraldo writes.
‘Donald Trump proved he is in a league of his own, the real Teflon Don.’
Geraldo goes on to state how despite everything that would make a candidate unfit: twice impeached, serially indicted, liable for 𝑠e𝑥ual assault inflating 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 ahead of his country, ahead of the Constitution he was sworn to protect and defend, yet he won overwhelmingly,’ Geraldo tweeted noting how ‘it is easier to recount what happened than it is to figure why.’
In a victory his supporters are calling the ‘Greatest Comeback in History,’ Trump has secured a decisive win, with Geraldo drawing comparisons to Napoleon’s legendary return in 1815.
Despite numerous controversies and legal challenges, Geraldo says Trump’s commanding performance reveals a deep divide between coastal elites and the heart of America, where his appeal as a defiant, larger-than-life figure remains unmatched.
‘A significant majority of Americans obviously see something in President Trump that most in the media or living on the coasts do not. A force of nature, he is supremely 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 ‘lawfare’ to undermine his campaign – he was able to jam up each legal proceeding against hime with endless motions and appeals,
Second, and perhaps more effective, approach was to demonize illegal immigrant.
By framing undocumented immigrants as existential threats to the nation, Trump tapped into widespread anxieties, creating a narrative of a country under siege.
‘He made the undocumented synonymous with rapists and murderers. They were poisoning the blood of the country, vermin, animals, dog and cat eaters from floating islands of garbage,’ Geraldo wrote.
‘It was wicked effective. He made Americans believe the country we all love was being stolen out from under us.’
In contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party emphasized themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Critics argue her message fell flat with many voters, who perceived it as out of touch.
Issues like 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 a hapless and tone-deaf response totally out of touch with tens of millions of Americans fearful of some dude in a dress demanding to play on the girls’ volleyball team or use the Ladies Room.’
‘Trump obliterated wokeness. He made the election an Us versus They/Them, shamelessly exaggerating the modest moves toward gender fluidity until it seemed every inmate in federal prison was lining up to get a taxpayer paid 𝑠e𝑥 change,’ he wrote.
Geraldo says he believes Kamala struggled to connect with voters on a personal level and to distinguish her policies from those of President Biden.
”She didn’t seem able to ad lib answers even in the friendliest venue. She never could articulate how her presidency would differ from Joe Biden’s. Nor did she reassure a tradition-minded nation that she wasn’t going to upend our centuries old norms.
‘Mainly, she wasn’t Trump, larger than life, powerful, heroic, defiant survivor of assassination attempts.’
Meanwhile, Trump’s unyielding confidence and theatrical persona—dubbed by Geraldo as ‘Godzilla in a suit’—bolstered his image as a champion of free enterprise and the American Dream.