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Kamala Campaign Chair's Hilarious Excuses in Wake of Loss - Including That Mean Media
Quote:Jen O'Malley Dillon and some of the Kamala Harris team went on "Pod Save America" to do an alleged breakdown of the election.
But she didn't seem ready to acknowledge responsibility for such a huge loss, as Ed Morrissey at Hot Air observes. Instead, she threw out excuses, including seemingly suggesting that the media — which largely bent over backward to support Harris — was spreading a "narrative" about her not wanting to do interviews.
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"I do think a narrative, 107 days… two weeks talking about how she didn't do interviews, which you know she was doing plenty, but we were doing in our own way, we had to be the nominee, we had to find a running mate, and do a roll-out, I mean there was all these things that you kind of want to factor in. But real people heard, in some way, that we were not going to have interviews, which was both not true and also so counter to any kind of standard that was put on Trump, that I think that was a problem," Dillon told "Pod Save America" host Dan Pfeiffer, noting that she was not a "media hater."
Dillon then complained that when Harris did do interviews, the questions people asked her were "small and processy." Harris campaign senior advisor Stephanie Cutter interrupted at that moment to add the questions were "dumb." Then Dillon went on to claim the questions weren't informing the voters and were doing them a disservice.
Being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bullsh*t, and also, like, took hold a little bit. And we just gave us another thing we had to fight back for that Trump never had to worry about.
Oh my gosh, what a pile of bull cookies.
First, Harris most certainly did go weeks without doing interviews after Joe Biden stepped aside on July 21 and endorsed her. That wasn't a "narrative" — that was the truth. She didn't do an interview until the CNN sitdown with Dana Bash that aired on Aug. 29. Even then, she had to bring her emotional support governor, Tim Walz, with her.
Then, she did interviews with friendly outlets like CNN. And even with friendly outlets, she had trouble. But the only non-liberal media outlet she did was Fox. Trump never had to "worry about" it because he did all manner of interviews, including hostile interviews, and more than Harris did.
And as far as the interview questions being "small and processy" or "dumb" — can you imagine the nerve? How dare those outlets ask her questions that she might have to answer? Dillon didn't identify what questions she was referencing but said that they weren't "informing" people. But most of the interviews asked her simple things like "What are your plans to help with inflation?" — the number one issue for many people, yet she seemed to keep flubbing it. Her answer was often something like, "I understand because I come from a middle-class family." Great. What are you going to do? The criticism of her failure to give clear answers was well-earned.
Harris would have been toast had she done Joe Rogan's show. But again, Dillon claimed they didn't do his show because they didn't have time. She said they didn't want to take time away from the battleground, and the timing just never worked out.
Again, I say bull cookies. Rogan is the biggest podcast in the world. They were able to find time to be on "Call Her Daddy" and other much smaller podcasts. They were able to find time to be on SNL. Kamala also took days off during the campaign for which Trump criticized her. He put it all out on the field for people to see and hear; she didn't.
The Harris team is still spinning nonsense at us.
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WATCH: Kevin O'Leary Drops Brutal Reality Check on Kamala and the Dems About Why They Lost the Election
Quote:Democrats and the liberal media seem largely shellshocked and mystified as to why Kamala Harris lost the presidential election.
Her campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon went on "Pod Save America" and tried to gaslight Americans about the reasons. She didn't seem to take any responsibility for the failures and blamed other things, like the media and not having enough time to go on shows like Joe Rogan's podcast.
Kamala Harris similarly didn't seem to take any responsibility, patting herself on the back for the campaign they ran in a call with grassroots supporters and sounding like she was doing a group therapy session, telling them that "they can't take your power" -- even as she just lost any power that she had, come January 20.
She still doesn't seem to get why she lost and says she's keeping her options open.
But "Shark Tank's" Kevin O'Leary didn't hold back on the reasons Harris lost when he was on "CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip." He said they basically blew it when they refused to do a proper process to nominate a candidate rather than just falling back on Harris so she could have access to the Biden campaign money they'd taken in.
Quote:Kevin O’Leary Delivers a Brutal Reality Check on Why Kamala Harris Lost in a Landslide
This is the harshest critique I've ever heard on CNN.
• “Faulted, broken candidate.”
• “Inconsequential in her vice presidency.”
• “Complete loser in 2020.”
• “Never could articulate anything.”
• “Had no compassion for people and her own advocates.”
“She went on The View. All those women wanted her to win. They threw her a softball. They threw her a second softball. She was so weak as a candidate, she couldn’t even answer that she would do something different. It ricocheted around the world. She was finished.”
They made an excuse of $317 million in the kitty. They kept the same campaign manager and said we will anoint this faulted, broken candidate who did, who was inconsequential in her vice presidency. Lost in 2019 as you detailed, complete loser in 2020. Never could articulate anything. Had no compassion for people.
O'Leary noted that even when the folks who advocated for her on "The View" threw her a softball question about what she would do differently, she couldn't answer it. You could see Scott Jennings nodding in agreement.
She was so weak as a candidate, she couldn’t even answer that she would do something different. It ricocheted around the world. She was finished. They will never do that again.
He's right about that being a turning point. She was already flailing, but that was the moment that truly did her in, and it was courtesy of her buddies at "The View" and specifically Sunny Hostin.
I don't know if I agree that "they will never do that again." That would require them to learn. They didn't learn when they put up an incredibly flawed candidate, Hillary Clinton, in 2016 and ran the same playbook, with Kamala Harris even seeming to copy some of the things that Hillary did. They didn't learn when they engineered things to help her and box out Bernie Sanders. They didn't learn in 2024 when initially they put up Joe Biden. Never underestimate their ability to make horrible choices; they've shown they have a talent for it.
O'Leary said he was struck by how "only 90 days ago, [Nancy] Pelosi went to Biden and said, 'You need to step aside' and convinced him to do so. He made the decision, and he did actually ask her, and we've now learned this, 'Is she the right person to drive this home?' He questioned that. He could have said, 'We need to run a process in order for me to make this move,' but they decided not to. I don't know who 'they' is. Was it [Barack] Obama? Was it Pelosi? I don't care who it was."
O'Leary said it was the second time the Democrats had "circumvented democracy." I think he was referring to the Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders DNC scandal as the first. That circumvention also factored into it, too, with that anti-democratic move to replace Biden even offending some Democrats.
They still don't appear to have learned their lesson.
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