I'm not sure where we're missing here. To get support, you need people to like you. To get people to like you, you need to talk to them. Based on those conversations, that should drive some of your policy decisions, but the more important thing is that they continue to like you.
Can't fake the funk. That's how you get Dukakkis'd. Or, to update the term losing union support and not at all realizing that it was an inflation and plutocracy election, Harris'd. Lies won over nothing.
Has to be real talk for sure. I do think Biden did good things, but he fucked Gaza bad and he fucked the entire primary. I liked Harris and can't fathom how anybody thought Trump was a better or similar option, but she probably would not have won the primary if Biden didn't run.