Kamala’s campaign was doomed, and everybody within the campaign pretty much knew it from the start.
For all the JOY!, the WEIRD fact that the campaign insiders never acknowledged publicly and even hid from donors was that their internal polls never showed Kamala ahead. In fact, their hopes lay in public-facing polls that showed the race tight or Harris even ahead.
LIARS: Senior aids to Kamala Harris have told the Huffington Post in an interview that internal polling NEVER showed her ahead of Trump. Basically, they ran a ONE BILLLION DOLLAR campaign based on a lie. pic.twitter.com/vvnqjPOjE8
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 26, 2024
Campaigns are expected to spin, but from the sounds of things the Harris campaign was more a con job than a serious attempt to win the presidency.
Here’s where Kamala Harris advisor David Plouffe admits internal polling never showed Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in battleground states — even after spending $1 billion pic.twitter.com/AVnH2kfll7
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 27, 2024
Having raised $1.4 billion and spending even more than that, all the happy talk given to donors was pure BS. The consultants got paid astronomical sums, media companies raked in the dough, and Democrats who contributed their money were fleeced.
And she might not have had much chance of winning anyway, given the deficit she inherited from Biden when he dropped out of the race in July.
“We were hopeful. I don’t know how optimistic we were, but we thought, OK, this is tied, and if a couple things break our way [we could win],” David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the campaign, said Tuesday on the “Pod Save America” podcast in a joint interview with fellow Harris campaign alums Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter.
Plouffe said the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said. “I think it surprised people, because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.”
All this came out in the podcast Pod Save America, about which Duane wrote earlier today. And while you can’t quite say that David Plouff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter spilled the beans–they all have reputations to save, and many more candidates to fleece in the future, but amid all the self-justification and spin a lot of interesting stuff came out.
Obviously the biggest problem with Harris’ campaign was Kamala Harris, whom nobody liked in the least until they were all told to scream JOY! from the top of the party. Everybody got in line, the media, the cultural elite, the Establishment, and the party faithful all got in line to pretend that they loved Kamala because she was “brat.”
A lot of people got very, very rich off Kamala’s campaign fountain of cash. The results of the election didn’t affect their cash grab in the least, but the polls they released ahead of time would have affected the amount of donor money that kept flowing in.
Do the math. https://t.co/GdbpAkXVBy
— Cruadin (@cruadin) November 27, 2024
Up to the very end the Harris campaign was telling its supporters that they were destined for victory. They even previewed the fight against Trump’s obviously false claims of victory. And, if you recall, on election night the candidate hid, the campaign figures ran for the hills, and Harris’ supporters at her “victory” party were left alone wondering what happened.
But the only winners were the consultants and media buyers, who made bank. Media buyers get a percentage of the spend, and the more the better.
Political megadonor @JohnMorganESQ joins “CUOMO” to discuss Democratic donor issues after the party spent $1.5 billion in Harris’ 15-week campaign. Morgan said the mismanagement of donor funding will “follow Harris for the rest of her career.”
MORE: https://t.co/WX0Y1IolZF pic.twitter.com/8FCCdENH8g
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) November 26, 2024
The Harris campaign was a huge scam. If you add in the money that flowed into Harris SuperPACs the total probably comes somewhere near $3 billion spent to watch Harris crash and burn.
Harris actually spent money to produce and air this ad. The only value added was for the people who made money producing and airing it.
The Harris campaign, like pretty much everything we have seen from the Establishment over the past few years, was a massive hoax. This time the victims were the grassroots Democrats who were conned out of their hard-earned money in order to enrich a political class that viewed the potential of an election victory as a bonus round. The real point was fleecing the donors for the insiders who ran the campaign.
Ironically, another group of people fell for the hoax: the people in the media who actually bought the bulls**t they were sold by the campaign. People like Bill Maher actually believed Trump had no chance of winning, as did many others in the media.
Will they learn from their mistake?
No. They are wedded to the Democratic Party, so a little thing like reality won’t stop them from repeating the talking points.
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