Prominent election analyst Nate Silver seemed unconvinced after Harris officials tried to explain the lack of interviews with candidates along the 2024 campaign trail.
During an appearance on “Pod Save America” on Wednesday, campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed President-elect Trump is “no” to traditional media interviews. Not a lot of quantity Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has been heavily criticized.
O’Malley Dillon would call this criticism a “double standard.”
The team’s transcript of the comments quickly caught Silver’s attention. which attempts to throw cold water on the narrative being pushed by the Harris campaign.
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Election expert Nate Silver has previously expressed concern about Biden and Harris’ ability to win the 2024 election. (Getty Images)
“Harris didn’t interview a single network until late September, so who cares? Network doesn’t matter that much,” he said. “And then she did things. Plenty at the end of the race But she’s legitimately not doing much traditional media, that’s the campaign’s choice. It is not a conspiracy.”
“The Harris campaign group is the most unrepresentative group of people I have ever encountered in a position of comparable decision-making power. They don’t see themselves as victims so much as characters who are not players and have no will of their own,” he added.
Non-playable character is a video game term that refers to a character that the player cannot control. Instead, it is directed by software programming.
Harris’ campaign aides have faced widespread backlash from both sides. Some argued that they were not responsible for the post-election podcast interview.
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New York Times reporter Astead Herndon and Jon Favreau, host of the “Pod Save America” podcast, were rude to each other in a recent podcast interview with a Harris campaign official, explaining why the deputy So President Kamala Harris lost. (Bennett Raglin / Stringer | Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)
“Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer talks with O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter in the Harris campaign’s first major interview since vice president-elect Loss to Trump. be president Online progressives harshly criticized the guest’s questioning and defensive stance.
Harris aides have complained about media coverage and repeatedly cited their time crunch with just over 00 days to put together a campaign. This stems from President Biden being effectively unchallenged in the Democratic primary. And didn’t resign until three weeks after the disastrous June debate with Trump.
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CNN’s Bakari Sellers, a Harris supporter Said during a network interview on Wednesday that That podcast interview “Most disappointing,” he said, citing “their lack of self-awareness. Lack of self-reflection.”
“It was reminiscent of the Kamala Harris interview, where she said nothing. No one answered the question. There was no response at all,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a Republican strategist. Wrote about an interview with a Harris campaign aide.
Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
