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There were a myriad of reasons why Kamala Harris lost the election, including the curious decision-making process of chumming around with Liz Cheney.

Before President-elect Donald J. Trump ran the table in all seven battleground states there was much speculation that the election could be decided in Michigan, a state with a heavily Muslim electorate that normally votes Democrat.

Harris failed to capitalize on replacing “Genocide Joe” by appealing to Muslim voters in the Detroit suburbs, going on to lose Dearborn to Trump by more than six percentage points where the endorsements of Dick Cheney and his daughter were the kiss of death.

Now that the election is over, media organizations are picking through the rubble of the Dems’ collapsed dream of one-party rule and NBC News interviewed pro-Palestinian activists who gave their thoughts on Kamala’s epic blunder.

“There’s been many ways in which Harris chose the path of Liz Cheney and the donor class on a range of issues, and abandoning working families in places like Dearborn, who make up the people Democrats claim to be fighting for,” said Layla Elabed, the sister of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who represents Dearborn.

“We provided Democrats with a pathway for victory and a way to unite the party and they spent 10 months ignoring us and berating us,” added Elabed who co-founded the Uncommitted movement to show their disapproval of Joe Biden’s failure to engineer a ceasefire in Gaza.

But Harris didn’t take advantage of the opportunity.

“She never came to Dearborn. She never came to speak to families that were first-hand impacted by our U.S. policy decisions that ultimately killed their family members,” Elabed told the outlet.

Unlike Harris, Trump visited Dearborn and was given a warm welcome.

Harris and the disgraced former congresswoman were galpals during the critical final month when the two of them held forums with suburban voters in Michigan and other key states, but the Cheney family legacy is one of war and dead Muslims in the Middle East, something that Trump reminded people of.

“Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger Liz Cheney, who wants to invade practically every Muslim country on the planet, and let me tell you, the Muslims of our country, they see it and they know it,” Trump told the crowd at a Michigan rally the week before the election.

“Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs. Millions,” he added, referring to George W. Bush’s notorious veep who endorsed Harris. “And this is the one that Kamala is campaigning with.”

Lifelong Democrat and co-chair of the state’s Abandon Harris campaign Farah Khan said “people wanted to hear” Trump’s promise to “end the war” in Gaza, pointing out that unlike Harris, the GOP candidate made an effort to reach out to the pro-Palestinian community.

“He at least, at least came and spoke to the Muslims. He heard them and said, ‘OK, I will finish. I will end the war in the Middle East,’ even if he didn’t say, you know, a genocide, but he said he will bring peace,” she said. “And that’s what the people wanted to hear, and that’s why he got the votes,” Khan said.

The thought process behind Harris’ idea that the toxic warmonger Cheney would be a plus in the home stretch run when Michigan was in play, will likely be second-guessed for a long time to come.

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