A group of Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign aides have been accused by liberals of gaslighting and total lack of accountability. Post-election podcast interview About what went wrong for Democrats in the election.
“Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer spoke with Jen O'Malley Dillon, David Plouffe and Quentin Pfeiffer in the Harris campaign's first major interview since her vice president's loss to President-elect Trump. We spoke with Mr. Foulkes, Stephanie Cutter, and others. Guest's questions and advocacy were harshly criticized by progressives online.
“I heard the @PodSaveAmerica brothers interview the Kamala campaign team and it was something between…disappointing and enraging. If I run the next D campaign, these are the people I wouldn’t hire them,” said podcast host and law professor Ben Yellin. , I wrote in response to the podcast. “The more you hear this, the worse it gets. Completely discrediting. Every five minutes they mention the fact that the campaign was short, they didn't have enough time. First of all, except for the proof. All of these guys were part of the Biden campaign, so they could have let Kamala out sooner and given him more time.”
Harris' aides have complained about media coverage and repeatedly cited the fact that she has just over 100 days to wrap up her campaign, which President Biden effectively challenged in the Democratic primary. He did not abstain until three weeks after the disastrous Democratic debate in June. Mr. Trump. Critics on social media blamed aides who had just lost the most consequential election in history, an election that Democrats and media figures had repeatedly warned about.
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Pollster Nate Silver also criticized the aides on social media, calling them “the most unrepresentative people I've ever met in a position of equal decision-making authority.”
“They don't see themselves as victims, they even see themselves as non-player characters with no will of their own,” he added.
“I think it's a story to tell about how she didn't do interviews for 107 days…two weeks. You know she did plenty of interviews, but we did it our own way. We had to be a candidate, we had to find a running mate, we had to do a rollout, all of those things that we wanted to take into account. But real people, somehow, had heard that we wouldn't get an interview, which was both untrue and also goes against every kind of norm up until then of Mr. Trump. “I think that was a problem,'' Dillon said on the podcast, prefacing his statement by saying he was not a “media hater.''
She went on to say that the story is “totally bullish.”
My excuses at the interview didn't work.
“Perhaps the macro headwinds and late candidate turnover were always too much to overcome, but when her campaign executives talked for 100 minutes about 'what happened,' “It's insane that he didn't say anything that he would have done differently in light of that,” former pollster Adam Carlson posted. In a separate post, he said he voted for Harris but was irritated by comments from aides.
“Pod Save America” host Tommy Vieter even spoke to critics who accused them of not learning “anything.” Vieter and his fellow hosts are all alumni of the Obama administration.
Dan Turrentine, host of “The Morning Meeting,” said he has great respect for the Harris campaign, noting that it was in a difficult situation when the president withdrew from the race in late July. But he added: “What cost Harris in 2019 will be the same for Harris in 2024: extreme caution, indecision, and fear of offending or making a mistake.” he added.
“Rather than being bold, articulate, agile, and aggressive, she was vanilla, small, hesitant, and difficult to understand. These facts remain implicit throughout the podcast. ” he added.
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CNN's Bakari Sellers, a Harris supporter, said in an interview with the network Wednesday that the podcast interview was “disappointing at best,” adding “their lack of self-awareness, their lack of self-reflection.” criticized.
“It was very reminiscent of the Kamala Harris interview. Nothing was actually said. No one answered any questions. There was no redirection of the interview,” Republican strategist Tricia McLaughlin said of Harris. I wrote about interviews with camp aides.
President John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg also called the podcast “insulting.”
The Nation's Jack Markinson took issue with his aides' failure to bring up the conflict between Israel and Hamas, saying, “The fact that they and their candidate supported genocide is worth considering.'' No,” he said.
Some described the podcast as “painful to listen to” and pointed to “zero accountability” from his aides.
In interviews posted on the show on YouTube, commentators accused Harris' aides of “gaslighting” and mainly said they just “don't get it.”
Jon Favreau, another Pod Save America co-host, posted to X early Wednesday morning defending the interview.
“Are people really interested in figuring out what went wrong in 2024 so Democrats can win again, or are they looking at data and data that doesn't support all of their political beliefs? “I think you need to decide if you're just going to refuse the information,” he wrote.
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When I was a reporter for the New York Times Asted Herndon Favreau called the interview “a good advertisement for the importance of independent media,” adding, “Are you okay? Are we not getting enough credit for reporting the news that Joe Biden is older?” vehemently criticized.
“You may think it's more embarrassing, but I understand that this is just a simulation game for you,” Herndon replied with an X.
