The Harris-Walz Campaign team’s recent appearance on ‘Pod Save America’ shows how operatives who have spent their entire careers cycling through campaigns, corporate boardrooms, and consulting firms produced a campaign that failed to inspire or connect with voters.

From the Article:

For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

  • frezik@midwest.social
    302·
    18 days ago

    Walz then disappeared for a month. The campaign sent him into the background while Harris made appearances with Liz Cheney.

    They threw progressives a bone, and then forgot about it.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      17 days ago

      Waltz did a good job in the VP debate, and then the DNC told him to stop calling JD weird.

      And then he played games on Twitch. Such a win for progressives! “Shut up and play games on Twitch!”