Nate Silver, a prominent election analyst, seemed unconvinced by Harris' staff's attempts to explain why the candidate was not interviewed during the 2024 campaign.
During an appearance on “Pod Save America” on Wednesday, campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon argued that the answer is “no” because President-elect Trump doesn't do many traditional media interviews. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that she had received significant criticism.
O'Malley Dillon went on to call this criticism a “double standard.”
The recording of the staffer's comments quickly caught the attention of Mr. Silver, who sought to throw cold water on the tone promoted by the Harris campaign.
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Pollster Nate Silver has previously expressed concern about Biden and Harris' ability to win in the 2024 election. (Getty Images)
“Mr. Harris didn't give a network-only interview until the end of September. Who cares, but the network doesn't really matter,” he said. “Then she had a lot of activity towards the end of the race. But she was justified in not appearing much in traditional media. It was a camp choice, not a conspiracy. .”
“People in the Harris camp are the most non-agency people I've ever met in a position of equal decision-making authority. They are non-agents with no will of their own. “I don't even see myself as a victim, more than a player character,” he added.
Non-playable character is a video game term for a character that is not controllable by the player. Instead, it is controlled by software programming.
Harris' campaign aides have faced widespread backlash from both sides of the aisle, with some suggesting she was not being held accountable in a post-election podcast interview.
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New York Times reporter Asted Herndon and podcast “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Favreau slam each other over a recent podcast interview featuring Harris campaign staffers about why Vice President Kamala Harris lost did. (Bennett Raglin / Stringer | Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)
“Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer spoke with O'Malley Dillon, David Plouffe and Quentin Fulks in the Harris campaign's first major interview since her vice president's loss to President-elect Trump. , we spoke with Stephanie Cutter and others. Online progressives harshly criticized the guests' questions and defensive stance.
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.
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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.
FOX News' Hannah Panlec contributed to this report.
