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I think she did ignore her base, mainly the working class. It's not just that she campaigned with Cheney and stuck to hard-right positions on Gaza and the border, but her economic message was entirely about opportunity for the middle-class class. Her working-class message had a few good features, like grocery price controls, but they were small measures shunted to the sidelines. It wasn't a broad economic message like BBB.
The campaign was predicated on a series of incorrect assumptions on who would vote for her. Women? They'll vote for me because of abortion. Muslims? They'll vote for me because Trump is worse. Working class? They always go Democrat, I don't need a strong economic message. PoC? C'mon, like they'll flip for Trump. Wow, we've got so many demographics on lockdown, we should try and flip some conservatives! It's not like my constituents will be so unenthused by my campaign that they won't bother to come out.