Top 5 biggest political turkeys ripped by conservatives in 2024

As the 2024 election season comes to a close, several prominent figures in the media and Democratic Party found themselves on the short end of the stick with disappointing performances at the ballot box. 

Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi

Sen. Chuck Schumer's Democratic Party lost the majority in the U.S. Senate in the November election, where Republicans now control the chamber 

Despite Vice President Harris' decisive loss to President-elect Donald Trump, the New York Democrat praised her for her "historic candidacy" that "inspired millions."

Both Schumer and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi vigorously campaigned for the Biden and Harris tickets, and Pelosi was reportedly instrumental in pushing Biden off the ticket in favor of Harris, which ultimately was not successful. 

"And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in [a primary] and been stronger going forward. But we don't know that. That didn't happen. We live with what happened," Pelosi told the New York Times. "And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different."

Axios reported in a piece headlined "Scoop: House Dems sick of Pelosi," that while she "still instills fear in the members she led for two decades," some Democrats are "clearly frustrated Pelosi isn't fading into the sunset like she promised when she lost the gavel two years ago."

George & Alex Soros

California voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of Prop 36, which rolled back key provisions of Proposition 47 that was advertised by Democrats in the state as progressive crime reforms that would make the state safer. 

When Proposition 47 passed in 2014, it downgraded most thefts from felonies to misdemeanors if the amount stolen was under $950, "unless the defendant had prior convictions of murder, rape, certain sex offenses, or certain gun crimes."

Oakland Democrat Mayor Sheng Thao, who faced heat from her constituents amid rising crime, was also ousted from office after her recall effort passed with 65% of the vote.

"I think that this is broader than just a message from people who care about crime," Cully Stimson, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book "Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America's Communities," told Fox News Digital.

"This is a massive mandate and cry for help from the general population that we want our state back. We want our counties back, and we want our cities back and that our failed social experiments have had enough time, and they're an absolute, abysmal failure."

Celebrities endorsing Harris

Harris' presidential campaign was perhaps the most star-studded in modern political history, with high profile names like Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Usher, Beyoncé and many others hitting the campaign trail promoting her candidacy in person or in ads, which ultimately failed to move the needle with swing state voters.

"Better yet, rather than do such events, the Harris campaign would have been better advised to let its candidate answer questions from independent journalists and give her more of a chance to explain herself and lay out her plans for America's future," the editorial board wrote. "Celebrity osmosis did not work; voters wanted to hear more about what Harris would do for them." 

"Like, no one cares what some of these - we like their movies, we like their music. Who they're voting for? Eh, not so important," the lawmaker told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt.

Pollsters

After many prominent outlets and pollsters missed badly on predicting Trump's performance in 2016, many conservatives have been panning pollsters for failing to predict Trump's electoral sweep of the key swing states along with his popular vote victory.

"My free advice to Democrats is fire all these consultants, pollsters, and so-called experts that gave you advice on how to reach the Hispanic vote because they don't know jack, OK?" Florida GOP Senator and Trumps nominee for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said this month on "America Reports" regarding the shift of Hispanic voters toward Trump. 

"The truth of the matter is, Hispanic voters are not in favor of illegal immigration, they are not in favor of uncontrolled immigration into our country, they are not in favor of allowing criminals to roam our streets and kill, murder, rape. Hispanic voters are not in favor of high prices that make life unaffordable, and they are not in favor of policies that send our jobs to other countries," he continued.

Biden/Harris re-election campaign

President Biden made history this summer when he dropped out of the presidential race amid pressure from many within his own party and essentially handed the reins to his vice president despite calls to hold an open primary process.

After several months of campaigning along with a spending blitz of $1 billion, Harris ultimately failed to make the case to voters that the Biden-Harris administration policies should be continued with four years of a Harris presidency. 

Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson, Alexander Hall and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report