Internal polling commissioned by the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris indicated that she never had a chance to defeat President-elect Donald Trump.
This revelation was made public by Harris campaign Senior Adviser David Plouffe, who spoke of the matter during a recent episode of the liberal-leaning politics podcast "Pod Save America" that aired Tuesday, Nov. 26. He spoke of how internal polling never showed Harris in the lead even though public polls showed the race as neck and neck.
"We were behind," Plouffe said plainly. "I mean, I think it surprised people because there were these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw." (Related: Kamala campaign raised over $1 BILLION but ended up over $20 million in debt.)
Trump's victory was the worst defeat for a Democrat in years, with the Republican sweeping up all seven swing states, decisively winning the Electoral College and even winning the popular vote – the first Republican presidential candidate to achieve this feat since 2004 during former President George W. Bush's campaign for a second term.
Initial survey already found people disapprove of Democratic administration
Plouffe's statements were confirmed and supported by other high-level Harris campaign staffers who were interviewed on "Pod Save America," including Senior Adviser for Strategy Messaging Stephanie Cutter, Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon and Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks.
"When Kamala Harris became the nominee, she was behind," said Plouffe. "We kinda, you know, climbed back. [But] even post-debate, we still had ourselves down in the battleground states, but very close."
Plouffe, who served as the campaign manager for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and as one of his senior advisers for two years, said the Harris campaign was paying very close attention to polls asking voters about how they felt about President Joe Biden, and whether the current Democratic administration was putting the country on the right track, both of which showed massive disapproval.
This, coupled with other factors like a weakening economy and a very shortened campaign period for Harris, who only took on the mantle of presidential candidate in July after Biden dropped out, resulted in a "challenging political environment" for the campaign, according to Plouffe.
"The fact that we got the race to dead heat was positive," he added.
Cutter, who served as Obama's deputy campaign manager in 2012 and a deputy senior adviser to the president, expressed how the campaign's main goal was to set Harris apart from the unpopular Biden administration – a Herculean task that it could not accomplish, partly because Harris herself was unwilling to deviate too much from Biden.
"We knew what the data was, we knew we had to show her as her own person and point to the future and not try to rehash the past," said Cutter. "But, she also felt that she was a part of the administration."
Cutter said Harris was pressured heavily throughout the campaign to fully differentiate herself from Biden and to even distance herself from him by, at the very least, mildly criticizing some aspects of his administration. She was not willing to do this.
"Why should she look back and pick out, cherry pick some things she would have done differently when she was part of it," said Cutter. "She also had tremendous loyalty to President Biden."
"The most she felt comfortable with saying was 'Look, vice presidents never break with their presidents,'" Cutter concluded.
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