Democrats are once again publicly relitigating how they lost the 2024 election and how the party treated former President Joe Biden, thanks to his son Hunter ripping into party leaders and officials.
Hunter Biden was recently interviewed by "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan," a popular YouTube channel. Biden went on a lengthy, expletive-ridden rant against people like David Axelrod, George Clooney, Anita Dunn, and former Obama staffers who went on to create the "Pod Save America" media brand.
'I know you're angry personally, but you're not the f**king victim here.'
"F**k him and everybody around him. I don't have to be f**king nice. George Clooney is not a f**king actor. ... He's a brand. ... Why do I have to listen to you?" Biden said about Clooney, who called for Biden to leave the race in a New York Times op-ed in July 2024.
"James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 f**king years, and David Axelrod ... had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David f**king Axelrod," Biden continued. "The 'Pod Save America' guys, who were junior f**king speech writers on Barack Obama's Senate staff, who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years making millions."
Biden maintains his father should not have dropped out of the race because he "got 81 million votes. ... The intelligentsia of the Democratic Party, with 20/20 hindsight, believes Joe Biden should consider not running again because of their perception he was too old."
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Tommy Vietor, who is part of the "Pod Save America" brand, went on X and gave his initial reaction to Biden's statements.
"It's good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family's insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we're all now living with," he said.
The "Pod Save America" team continued their response during an episode of their show: "I know you're angry personally, but you're not the f**king victim here."
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Chris Jackson, a Democrat social media influencer and staunch Biden defender, fired back at "Pod Save America" by saying most Americans agree with Biden's assessment of how the party treated his father.
"Instead of backing and using your platform to relentlessly promote Biden’s historic record, you trashed him and Kamala from day one. Nothing was ever good enough — because you never liked Biden. It killed you that he won without your blessing," Jackson said. "You built the circular firing squad. If we’d been united, we’d have won. But you needed to feel important because you once fetched coffee for Obama."
During the same interview with "Channel 5," Biden floated a scenario where he would be president to secure the release of criminal illegal immigrants sent to El Salvador.
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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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