“We had hope. I don't know how optimistic we were, but we thought, okay, this is a tie, and even though some things break our path, we I thought about it [we could win]” said David Plouffe, senior adviser to the campaign. said on tuesday.
Plouffe also acknowledged that internal polling showed Kamala Harris never leading Trump, and even admitted that he was surprised by polls showing Harris in the lead.
“We didn't get the break we needed on Election Day,” he said. “I think people were surprised because the polls that came out in late September and early October were showing a lead that we had never seen before.”
Plouffe was joined by campaign staffers Jen O'Malley Dillon, Quentin Fawkes and Stephanie Cutter.
Some Democrats have criticized Harris for failing to properly distinguish herself from President Joe Biden during the campaign. the view In it, she said she did “nothing” different from her boss in her administration, but Stephanie Cutter felt Harris was simply loyal.
“We knew we had to show her as her own person and point to the future rather than rehashing the past,” Cutter said. “But she also felt like she was part of the administration. If we didn't say, 'Well, I would have handled the border in a completely different way,' I couldn't satisfy you either.”
“She had tremendous loyalty to President Biden,” Cutter continued. “Imagine if we said, 'Well, we would have taken this approach at the border.'” Then there's story after story where people say, 'Well, she didn't say that at the meeting.' Imagine coming out. ”
Quentin Fawkes said President Trump's ad criticizing Kamala Harris' stance on transgender issues, such as paying for inmates' gender transitions with taxpayer dollars, was effective.
“Ultimately, I don't think it was about 'trans' issues. I think it made her feel out of place, and what was underneath was like a pseudo-economic ad, because Because he said his taxes would pay for it,” Fulks said.
“We've tested a ton of responses to this, direct responses, but nothing has been tested more than basically talking about what she's going to do, what kind of president she's going to be in the future. “I did,” Fulks said.
Foulkes said the campaign decided to avoid ads attacking Trump in hopes of presenting Harris in a positive way.
“If we spent this entire campaign trying to stop immigrant attacks, stop criminal attacks, stop transgender attacks, at what point would we oust Mr. Trump or install a vice president of our own convenience? “Will we do it?” Fulks said. “We’re playing on their field.”
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