The Harris-Walz Campaign team’s recent appearance on ‘Pod Save America’ shows how operatives who have spent their entire careers cycling through campaigns, corporate boardrooms, and consulting firms produced a campaign that failed to inspire or connect with voters.

From the Article:

For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    414·
    14 days ago

    You’d have a hard time believing a lot then, because that’s what actual voters were saying. If Harris had been more left-leaning in appearance, they wouldn’t have even captured the shift they did grab.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      164·
      14 days ago

      Clearly she didn’t support genocide hard enough or get the endorsement of enough Cheneys.

      For your liking.

      • KidNamedLainah@lemmy.world
        12·
        14 days ago

        To anyone reading Ensign’s comment and downvoting, their claim is essentially an already established fact. Rolling Stone put out an article after the election saying that the Harris campaigned intentionally ignored Democratic party insiders and their advice and polling data against bringing the Cheneys on board.

        A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney — and making the campaign’s closing argument about how many Republicans were supporting Harris — was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020.

        “We were told, basically, to get lost, no thank you,” says the operative.

        Article in question

        • frunch@lemmy.world
          11·
          13 days ago

          The fucking Cheneys! If you told me years back that name would somehow be invoked as a supporter of the DNC candidate, I’d say the party had been compromised. ಠ_ಠ

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          92·
          14 days ago

          No centrist cares, dude. They’re just gonna do what the DNC did and scream even louder that we need to move to the right.