Some Democratic officials have criticized candidate Kamala Harris’ election after a series of recent public appearances in which she and her senior staff failed to acknowledge mistakes that may have contributed to their loss. He accuses the camp of being self-congratulatory.
Some of the criticism was directed at Harris herself, after the vice president expressed pride over her failure to win the White House during a video call thanking campaign donors.
She said the coalition rallied during the three-and-a-half month campaign to rank among the “greatest political campaigns” after succeeding Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee. He seemed proud. Despite her decisive loss to Donald Trump, she claims it will have a “lasting impact” and warns her and her supporters in advance that it will be a disaster. I was doing it.
“I’m proud of the race we ran. Your role in this race was critical,” the vice president said in a 10-minute speech. “What we accomplished in 107 days was unprecedented. If you think about the coalition that we built, and we were very intentional about it – you know I always talked about it. You heard me talking.”
Although she acknowledged that the election “didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to,” she noted that the campaign raised a record nearly $1.5 billion, with a reported $20 million. He praised his success in raising money from grassroots donors, even though he ended his campaign in debt and debt. Send post-election fundraising emails to donors.
A member of the Democratic National Committee’s finance team called the Harris campaign “self-congratulatory” after some of the vice president’s key staffers also appeared on a touted podcast dissecting the causes of her defeat. is.
Lindy Lee told NewsNation she was “stunned by the lack of any post-mortem or analysis of this disastrous campaign.”
“We just kind of patted each other on the back,” she said. “They praised Harris as a visionary leader, and at one point during the call, she was talking about Thanksgiving recipes.”
“I don’t think that’s the case,” Lee said, referring to a Pod Save America podcast posted Tuesday in which key Harris aides discussed more than $1 billion in campaign spending.
“The primary beneficiaries of the Harris campaign were these consultants, not the American people.”
One explanation given by Harris adviser Stephanie Cutter on a podcast about why the vice president refused to break with Biden despite the president’s persistently low approval ratings drew criticism.
“She felt like she was part of the administration. So why does she look back and see how many things she would have done differently when she was in it?” Do I have to choose?” Cutter said on the podcast. “She had tremendous loyalty to President Biden. So the best thing we can do and the best thing she can feel comfortable with is, look, the vice president will never break with the president. It was.”
One X user posted: “If it wasn’t for an episode where the Pod Save America guys were just talking straight about all the losers who helped us lose, I’d never listen to another episode again. (Because) Oh my god. It must have been such nonsense.”
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Another podcast guest, former adviser to Barack Obama, David Plouffe, was criticized for claiming that “it’s really hard for Democrats to win battleground states.” He said his party needed to “dominate the moderate vote” to win future elections.
Jeet Heer, a reporter for the left-wing magazine Nation, responded, “Is it too much to ask for a little humility and reflection from those whose strategies have failed so badly?”
Another social media user wrote, “Anyone with more than one brain cell and who was instrumental in building the Democratic Party would be analyzing the depressed turnout numbers. But my friends at Pod Save America We have no other goal than to relive our glory days.”
The debate, which included Harris’ campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon and deputy campaign manager Quentin Fawkes, was also ridiculed by some on the right.
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told NewsNation: You follow the football and nobody did anything wrong and they’re 3-8…I hope people understand the absurdity of this. ”
James Carville, a veteran Democratic strategist who helped lead Bill Clinton to victory in the 1992 election, criticized aides who advised Harris not to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast before the election. . Mr. Trump, by contrast, granted Mr. Logan a three-hour interview.
“If I’m campaigning for 2028 and some snotty 23-year-old says, ‘If you don’t do this, I’m quitting,’ I’ll just fire that son of a bitch on the spot.” Instead, we will find out who hired them and fire them on the spot,” Carville said in a foul-mouthed video rant posted on social media. “I have no interest in your ignorant, stupid, idiotic opinions on whether or not you support Joe Rogan.”
