Data journalist Nate Silver says Vice President Kamala Harris' aides appear to be avoiding responsibility for the Democratic Party's disastrous election loss, calling them “good-for-nothing people with no will of their own.” did.
Silver reacted to X Interview conducted by “Pod Save America” Harris campaign officials, including Jen O'Malley Dillon and Stephanie Cutter, claimed that the Democratic candidate granted interviews to reporters after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race this summer.
Following President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory earlier this month, Democrats and their allies have begun to question Harris' strategy. Harris' strategy was to mostly avoid media interviews in the early stages of her campaign, but then reverse course once she realized her public standing was inferior. Public opinion poll.
Former Obama official and “Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer commented that Harris “has done more in traditional media” than President-elect Donald Trump. Mr. Trump's senior adviser, Mr. Cutter, agreed, saying, “Mr. Trump did nothing.''
“It doesn't matter,” said campaign chairman O'Malley Dillon.
“Okay,” O'Malley Dillon said. “What I'm saying is that Mr. Trump meant nothing.”
Cutter agreed, saying: There were many opinions that she did not have enough media activity. ”
Pfeiffer agreed, adding, “He had no idea.”
O'Malley Dillon denounced what she called a “double standard.”
“Well, don't do that,” Cutter said.
But Silver was having none of that, write to x: “Harris didn't do a single network interview until late September. Who cares? The network doesn't really matter.”
“Then she did a lot of things towards the end of the race. But it made sense that she wouldn't appear in traditional media much. It was a campaign choice, not a conspiracy.” wrote the founder of data news site “538''.
Silver described Harris' campaign officials as “the least representative people I've ever met in a position of equal decision-making authority.”
“They don't see themselves as victims, they are non-player characters with no will of their own,” he writes.
Silver also responded to comments from O'Malley Dillon, who lamented the fact that the Harris campaign was “disrupted for two weeks because of the hurricane.”
“There's a lot going on here, and it's worth reading, but the idea that the Hurricanes were a huge surprise in October that specifically disadvantaged Harris is just plain weird.” Silver wrotenoted that states affected by the storm were easily won by Trump.
“Relatively speaking, North Carolina and Georgia even had less vote swings than other battleground states.”
O'Malley Dillon and Cutter could not be reached for comment.
