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'I think this is what gives Democrats agita'
Democratic strategist begs Kamala Harris not to run again
Kamala Harris' first attempt to secure the White House was a colossal failure. While struggling to break out of the single digits in early state polls, Harris learned that a majority of Democrats in her home state of California wanted her to call it quits. She obliged them in December 2019. Years later, she supplanted the candidate who single-handedly salvaged her career only to suffer an even more humiliating defeat, burning through over $1.5 billion for the privilege of losing in the Electoral College by a landslide.
Apparently, the 60-year-old leftist thinks the next time might be different and has signaled an interest in trying again. On Tuesday, Democratic strategist Theryn Bond begged the vice president to throw in the towel on her presidential ambitions.
Last week, a Morning Consult survey indicated that 43% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents would now vote for Harris in a presidential primary of the kind effectively voided by the party earlier this year. A recent Echelon Insights snap poll indicated that 41% of respondents would vote for Harris in a Democratic primary held today.
'Please don't.'
Politico reported Monday that Harris, likely aware that a great many Democrats are willing to overlook her repeated failures, "has been 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."
Harris has repeatedly told reporters, "I am staying in the fight."
Five individuals in the vice president's inner circle who spoke to Politico on the condition of anonymity suggested that Harris will think over her political options with family members over the Christmas season.
On Tuesday, within hours of Democrats releasing a bizarre and widely ridiculed video of Harris, Theryn Bond urged the vice president on Newsmax's "National Report" "not to run again in 2028. Please don't."
'If they're dumb enough to run her again, I can't wait.'
"I can't really speak for governor of California. Californians seem to support her significantly. We haven't yet been able to measure what that support looks like after this current run she just had," said Bond.
The Democratic strategist suggested that a gubernatorial bid might "make sense for her to consider, but another shot at the presidency — I hope she doesn't. And if she is relying on those same advisers that advised her this cycle, that's not who I would listen to."
Conservative political strategist Luke Ball largely agreed with Bond's assessment, noting that in California, Harris would have "high name ID, but if she ran anywhere else in the country, I don't think she'd be able to get elected to dog catcher."
Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck noted, "Wow. This Echelon poll asked Democrats who they'd vote for in the 2028 Presidential primary and 41% said Kamala Harris. If they're dumb enough to run her again, I can't wait."
Conservative commentator Michael Knowles said that Harris, "who lost in a massive landslide, who allowed the Republican to win the popular vote for the first time in 20 years — the Republican who we had all been told was Hitler incarnate, who was running for an implausible nonconsecutive second term — that woman wants to run again in 2028? I strongly encourage this. I might donate to the Kamala primary campaign."
A Democratic strategist granted anonymity by Politico said, "I can't conceivably imagine the party turning to her a second time."
Speculation now abounds about the possibility that another failed Democratic presidential candidate might try her luck again in 2028.
After the the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Wednesday that Bill and Hillary Clinton will give speeches in Little Rock in December to help mark the Clinton Presidential Center's 20th anniversary, senior Trump adviser Jason Miller responded, "SHE'S RUNNING!"
"Just when I thought I couldn't be more thankful," tweeted Donald Trump Jr.
Elon Musk replied to the prospect of a third Clinton campaign with a laughing emoji.
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Democrat legend attacks Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' for lying to Democrats
If running on a platform that idolizes frivolous abortion, taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrant inmates, the mutilation of children, DEI, and open borders isn’t considered “woke,” then most Americans don’t know what is.
Regardless, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart have apparently claimed that Kamala Harris did not run a “woke” campaign — and James Carville isn’t having it.
“I saw Bill Maher, I saw Jon Stewart, I saw different people,” Carville began in a video posted to social media, explaining that the discussions these figures had revolved around whether or not Harris’ woke campaign hurt Democrats' chances of beating Donald Trump.
“Of course it hurt us,” he said. “Jon Stewart says, ‘Well it couldn’t hurt because no Democrat ran on it.’ Of course they didn’t run on it, because it was even to the most clueless progressive that you could imagine, by that time, they knew it was a disaster. So in order to escape any responsibility, what happened, they said, ‘Well, that stuff was never used in 2024.’”
“Well, you’re f***ing wrong. It was used,” Carville continued. “In comedy, if you tell a bad joke, who gives a s***. You just tell a bad joke, and you throw the bad joke away. In politics, if you have a bad policy, particularly one as bad and stupid as this was, you may throw it away, but the other side gets to play.”
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” thinks Carville has made an excellent point.
“You’re making the right point there. You can’t run away from everything you just ran on. We’re watching them do it in real time, we’re watching them pretend they had nothing to do with any of this, but the entire Harris campaign was based on equity,” Rubin says.
“These were the people who every time we said, ‘Oh, you know, judging people by the color of their skin and not the color of their character, that’s a problem, that’s racism,’ they would be like, ‘No, no, no, we need quotas,’” he continues.
“So they ran on this, it was soundly rejected, and then to Carville’s point, now we get to use it against them. But they’re going to literally pretend they had nothing to do with it,” he adds.
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Massively popular YouTube show rejected Kamala interview; Harris campaign claims she was 'ready, willing to go on Joe Rogan'
The massively popular YouTube show "Hot Ones" rejected a proposed pre-election appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris, according to her campaign leaders.
On Tuesday, Harris campaign chiefs made an appearance on "Pod Save America" — a left-wing political podcast hosted by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor.
'So, we had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team. They were great. They wanted us to come on.'
The Harris campaign heads attempted to explain why Kamala lost to Donald Trump despite the Harris campaign spending roughly $1.5 billion in 15 weeks.
"This political environment sucked. We were dealing with ferocious headwinds, and I think people's instinct was to give the Republicans and even Donald Trump another chance," stated Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe.
Harris campaign senior adviser Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed that Kamala didn't succeed because she didn't have enough time.
“In a 107-day race, it is very difficult to do all the things you would normally do in a year and a half, two years,” Dillon alleged.
The Harris leaders claimed that time constraints prevented Kamala from appearing on "The Joe Rogan Experience."
“I hate to repeat this over and over, but it was a very short race with a limited number of days, and for a candidate to leave the battleground and go to Houston is a day off the playing field in the battleground [states],” Harris campaign staffer Stephanie Cutter alleged. “As it turns out, that was the day that Trump was taping his Joe Rogan [episode], which they had never confirmed to us. We kind of figured that out, in the lead-up to it. ... She was ready, willing to go on Joe Rogan. So we had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team. They were great. They wanted us to come on. We wanted to come on. We tried to get a date to make it work, and ultimately we just weren’t able to find a date.”
However, Joe Rogan claimed that he offered to interview Harris at any time to make it happen as long it was a long-form conversation in his Austin studio.
"You could look at this and you can say, ‘Oh, you’re being a diva,’ but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas, and I literally gave them an open invitation. I said anytime," Rogan explained. "I said if she’s done at 10, we'll come back here at 10. I go, I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at 10 p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up, if she wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull."
As Blaze News previously reported, Rogan stated that the Harris campaign wanted an interview that would be under one hour long in a location outside his Austin studio.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville previously skewered the Harris campaign for not doing an interview with Rogan — host of the most popular podcast in the world.
Meanwhile, Trump embraced long-form podcasts that garnered massive audiences with young, male Americans. Trump did a nearly three-hour podcast on "The Joe Rogan Experience" in Austin as well as making appearances on comedian Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend,” golfer Bryson DeChambeau’s “Break 50,” Mark “The Undertaker” Calaway’s “Six Feet Under,” and Barstool Sports’ “Bussin' with the Boys.”
The Harris campaign attempted to counter by requesting to appear on the extremely popular internet show "Hot Ones."
The well-received YouTube show features host Sean Evans interviewing celebrities while they eat progressively spicier chicken wings.
However, the producers of the "Hot Ones" show rejected the Harris campaign's request to have Kamala on the show before the 2024 election.
"Pod Save America" host Dan Pfeiffer said, "'Hot Ones' as an example. Like, there never in time has there been a candidate better suited for a podcast than Kamala Harris on 'Hot Ones.'"
Cutter noted that the Harris campaign tried to get her on the show, but "Hot Ones" producers didn't want to get involved in the divisive world of politics.
“I think, if I remember correctly, on 'Hot Ones,' that they didn’t wanna delve into politics,” Cutter noted. "Anybody that took him would take us. It was more some of the, like, like 'Hot Ones,' which is a great show, they didn’t want to do any politics, so they weren’t going to take us or him. So that was the issue. But we got on plenty of them, and the bottom line is she was willing to do just about anything and have a conversation with anybody regardless of where they sat."
"Hot Ones" has more than 14 million followers on YouTube. Episodes of "Hot Ones" regularly have millions of views, and the episode with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has nearly 130 million views.
The "Hot Ones" podcast did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
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Trump likely too popular to beat, Harris campaign admits
Several senior advisers of failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris have admitted that President-elect Donald Trump was likely too popular to beat in the 2024 election.
On Tuesday, the left-leaning show "Pod Save America" dropped an episode featuring Harris advisers David Plouffe, Jen O'Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter. The team did their best to spin the campaign and Harris' overall performance in a positive light, but even they had to admit Trump had the edge almost from the moment Joe Biden dropped out and Harris got the nod.
"She had a huge deficit in favorability because either people didn't know about her or what they did know about her was based off of negative media," Cutter claimed.
Even the lone presidential debate between Harris and Trump, which the media claims Harris won, did little to move the needle, Plouffe explained, estimating it may have given Harris only a half-point boost.
"Even post-debate, we still had ourselves down in the battleground states."
They also begrudgingly admitted that a larger share of the American electorate has warmed to Trump. Plouffe pointed out that this time around, Trump performed significantly better among voters without a college degree, especially those who are not white.
Others noted that voters look back on Trump's first term favorably, especially when compared with the Biden-Harris administration. Between COVID and high inflation, Americans "had been through hell" the past four years, Cutter claimed, and were therefore remembering Trump's time in office "much more fondly."
In fact, Trump nostalgia was so strong that the Harris campaign attempted to stoke fear about a second Trump term, Plouffe indicated, and harped on his perceived weaknesses such as abortion and Project 2025.
"Once you have a former president running where 48% to 51% of the people approve of his first term and people are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, you have to raise the stakes of what a second term would be like," Plouffe explained.
"So I think for us, we spent much more time trying to raise the stakes of a second term than re-arbitrating the first because voters just weren't open to that," he added.
"At the end of the day, the political atmosphere was pretty brutal."
'We got it to even, but the thing never moved.'
Another aspect of this "Pod Save America" episode that has garnered national attention was the discussion about the apparent disconnect between public polling numbers and the internal polling numbers, as Blaze News previously reported.
"We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day," Plouffe said. "I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw."
Indeed, from about August 5 until October 23, the RealClearPolling average had Harris ahead of Trump, usually by about two points. Ipsos and Marist polls taken the first week of November likewise showed Harris with two-point and four-point national lead respectively.
Trump ended up winning the popular vote by about 1.6% and the Electoral College in a landslide, trouncing Harris 312 to just 226.
Nevertheless, in the weeks leading up to the election, the Harris team still viewed the race as "tight" and within "the margin of error," believing they needed only a few data points to bounce their way to a Harris victory. Those bounces never happened.
"We got it to even, but the thing never moved," Plouffe said.
O'Malley Dillon admitted that they knew heading into Election Day that Virginia would be "redder" than in the past two presidential elections, and by election night, they all had an inkling that the race would not go as hoped. As returns came in, Plouffe noted a "massive shift" to the right in traditionally blue states such as California, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, even as Harris still carried them.
"It ended up being a pretty strong tailwind for Donald Trump."
H/T: NewsWire
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