A senior adviser of Kamala Harris revealed that the Harris campaign’s internal polling never had Harris leading Trump.
In the months leading into the 2024 election, several mainstream media outlets reported that Harris was leading Trump in several swing states.
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris, was surprised by the polls presented in the media because internal polling showed Harris either behind or tied with Trump.
Plouffe shared, “I think it surprised people because there were these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.”
"The Harris campaign's internal polling apparently never had her ahead of Trump."
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) November 27, 2024
LIARS: Senior aids to Kamala Harris have told the Huffington Post in an interview that internal polling NEVER showed her ahead of Trump. Basically, they ran a ONE BILLLION DOLLAR campaign based on a lie. pic.twitter.com/vvnqjPOjE8
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 26, 2024
Check out what The Washington Examiner reported:
The leadership of outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign said that internal polling never had her ahead of President-elect Donald Trump.
ADVERTISEMENTAfter President Joe Biden began lagging heavily behind Trump in the polls in June and July, the entrance of Harris appeared to solve Democrats’ problems. From August until right before the election, a great many accredited public polls had Harris leading Trump.
According to David Plouffe, a senior adviser on the Harris campaign, this was never reflected in internal polling, which always had Harris behind or tied with Trump.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said in an appearance on the Pod Save America podcast. “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.”
Plouffe added that internal polling didn’t change much throughout the election, remaining mostly static since Harris joined the race in July.
🚨 JUST IN: Kamala Harris’ internal polling NEVER showed her leading President Trump, her aides tell HuffPo
The entire campaign was a TOTAL LIE.
Democrats were relying on fraud, but we made it too big to rig. pic.twitter.com/VrSKBRyNsi
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 26, 2024
Per Yahoo News:
Senior advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign suggested this week that there just wasn’t much else Harris could have done to beat Donald Trump.
Harris couldn’t have distanced herself from President Joe Biden, they said, because she was loyal. She couldn’t have responded more forcefully to attacks over trans rights, because doing so would have been playing Trump’s game.
And she might not have had much chance of winning anyway, given the deficit she inherited from Biden when he dropped out of the race in July.
“We were hopeful. I don’t know how optimistic we were, but we thought, OK, this is tied, and if a couple things break our way [we could win],” David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the campaign, said Tuesday on the “Pod Save America” podcast in a joint interview with fellow Harris campaign alums Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter.
ADVERTISEMENTPlouffe said the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he 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.”
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