November 26, 2024

THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH: Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed.

Senior advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign suggested this week that there just wasn’t much else Harris could have done to beat Donald Trump.

Harris couldn’t have distanced herself from President Joe Biden, they said, because she was loyal. She couldn’t have responded more forcefully to attacks over trans rights, because doing so would have been playing Trump’s game.

And she might not have had much chance of winning anyway, given the deficit she inherited from Biden when he dropped out of the race in July.

“We were hopeful. I don’t know how optimistic we were, but we thought, OK, this is tied, and if a couple things break our way [we could win],” David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the campaign, said Tuesday on the “Pod Save America” podcast in a joint interview with fellow Harris campaign alums Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter.

Plouffe said the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.

Still though, it was worth it for the cornbread stuffing, if nothing else:

So after Thanksgiving, what’s next for Harris? According to Politico, Kamala Harris is “instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years.” Or perhaps something more up her alley: Kamala Harris at Planned Parenthood? “Having Harris in charge of Planned Parenthood would keep her involved in politics, an unfortunate outcome. But perhaps there’d be a silver lining if she rose to the occasion with the same aplomb with which she campaigned for president.”

Planned Parenthood might be the most viable option for Kamala: Democrat Megadonor: The Kamala Harris Campaign “Legally Stole” the $1.5 Billion They Raised from Donors.

He means they were so profligate with their spending that they effectively stole it, but they can’t be prosecuted for it, because it was a “legal” theft.

This makes Kamala Harris a non-viable candidate going forward — if she can’t run a campaign, she can’t be president, he says.

That’s obvious.

But he also says that megadonors will be reluctant to donate to the Democrat Party until there is an accounting, and reassurances that their billions will not be pissed away on private air charters and building $100,000+ fake sets for Call Her Daddy and millions to pay rank rap performers to twerk their WAPs at rallies. (Kamala was running for all of our daughters, you know.)

“She had all this money coming in. She had all these consultants, and if you don’t run the ads, you don’t get paid for the buy. They were running ads in Florida, where I live, nonstop. And I’m like, why? I mean, are they running in Alabama and Idaho, too? And I’ll tell you why. If you don’t run the ads, the buyer doesn’t get paid,” [Attorney John] Morgan explained.”

“I told everybody, she should not have been the nominee. She was not going to win, and she didn’t win, and she lost badly…. So she’s having a call with donors this week, and they tell me about her political future. I don’t think she has a political future. So that’s my thought on her.”

Exit question: Chardonnay or sauvignon blanc with turkey?

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll