Social media churned with theories in the hours following her remarks. Some supporters insisted she had been sabotaged. Others blamed a fractured party still struggling with generational divides. Some pointed to early missteps that became narrative quicksand. But inside the party apparatus, the postmortem was colder. The campaign had relied too heavily on demographic assumptions that didn’t translate into enthusiasm. Turnout models were overly optimistic. Messaging platforms were inconsistent. And the digital strategy, once thought to be the campaign’s backbone, failed to cut through an online environment dominated by outrage-based content and relentless misinformation.
