
Unlike Kamala Harris, Pat McFadden knows how to win a national election. Shell-shocked Democrats might want to take more note of how Labour rebuilt after 2019 as they digest the reasons why they lost the White House to Donald Trump.
Trump emulated Boris Johnson’s 2019 success by reaching parts of the electorate that no Right-winger had done before. In the Republican’s case, that meant winning over working-class white women, black and Hispanic voters - all core Democratic constituencies that Harris needed desperately to stay on side.