Several senior advisers to unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris have acknowledged that President-elect Donald Trump is likely too popular to win the 2024 election.
Tuesday's left-wing program “pod save america” dropped an episode featuring Harris advisors David Plouffe, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fawkes, and Stephanie Cutter. The team did their best to positively change the campaign and Harris' overall performance, but even they had to admit that Trump was Joe Biden resigning and Harris agreeing. From the moment I did that, I had the upper hand.
“Her favorability went down significantly because people either didn't know about her or what they knew about her was based on negative media,” Cutter argued.
Even the only presidential debate between Harris and Trump, as claimed by the media. harris wonPlouffe explained that it had little effect on moving the needle and may have only given Harris a half-point boost.
“Even after the debate was over, we were still at a disadvantage in the battleground states.”
They also grudgingly acknowledged that a large portion of the American electorate favors Mr. Trump. Plouffe noted that Trump performed much better this time around among voters without a college degree, particularly among non-white voters.
Others noted that voters look back favorably on President Trump's first term, especially when compared to the Biden-Harris administration. Between the coronavirus and high inflation, Americans are remembering Trump's presidency “more fondly” because they've been “going through hell” over the past four years, Kutter argued.
In fact, Plouffe said the nostalgia for Trump was so strong that the Harris campaign sought to stir up fear about Trump's second term, harping on Trump's weaknesses such as abortion and Project 2025.
“If a former president runs, with 48% to 51% of the public supporting his first term and people dissatisfied with the direction of the country, we need to raise the stakes as to what a second term will look like. ” Plouffe said. He explained.
“So for us, I think we spent much more time raising the stakes for a second term than we did re-arbitrating the first term because the voters didn't buy into it,” he added. Ta.
“As it turns out, the political atmosphere was pretty brutal.”
“We pushed it to even, but things didn't move.”
Another aspect of this “Pod Save America” episode that garnered national attention was the apparent discrepancy between the polling numbers and the internal polling numbers, as previously reported by Blaze News. It was a discussion about something.
“I didn’t get the break I needed on Election Day.” Proof said. “I think people were surprised because polls came out in late September and early October that showed a lead that we had never seen before.”
In fact, from around August 5th to October 23rd, RealClearPolling Average Ms. Harris typically beat Mr. Trump by about 2 percentage points. Ipsos and Marist polls conducted in the first week of November similarly showed Harris with a 2-point and 4-point lead nationally, respectively.
Mr. Trump ultimately won the popular vote by a margin of about 1.6% And the Electoral College left Harris 312 to just 226 in a landslide.
Nevertheless, in the weeks leading up to the election, Harris' team still deemed the race “close” and within the “margin of error,” with only a few points of data needed to lift her towards a victory. believed that it was necessary. Those bounces never happened.
“We got close to tying the game, but things didn't move,” Plouffe said.
O'Malley Dillon knows ahead of Election Day that Virginia will be “redder” than in the past two presidential elections, and by Election Night everyone knew the race wasn't going to go as expected. He admitted that he had done so. As the returns arrive, Plouffe says traditionally blue states like California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York are seeing a “massive shift to the right,” even though Harris still holds them. pointed out.
“It ended up being a pretty strong tailwind for Donald Trump.”
H/T: news wire
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