Kamala Harris’ disastrous campaign was marred by incompetent staffers, the fallout from Joe Biden’s refusal to drop out of school, and a lack of intellectual diversity.
In the week since Donald Trump’s dominant victory, Democrats have become a circular firing squad against each other, blaming everyone for Harris’ loss.
“The campaign has been broken from the beginning,” admitted one Democratic insider. “I’m surprised we even got close.”
Not only did his campaign end in disaster, but to add insult to injury, the operation is allegedly in debt, Politico reports, to the tune of $20 million.
Biden’s staff says the vice president ran a terrible three-month campaign and wasted millions of dollars from his biggest donors.
Kamala Harris’ disastrous campaign was marred by incompetent staffers, the fallout from Joe Biden’s refusal to drop out, and a lack of intellectual diversity.
Biden’s staff says the vice president ran a terrible campaign that lasted three months and wasted millions of dollars from his biggest donors.
According to Harris campaign sources, many of the major issues were triggered by Joe Biden’s failed attempt to run for a second term early on.
Many sources said that Biden not only stayed in the race for so long, but he did so as an unpopular incumbent, to the point that almost no Democrats were able to stop Trump from winning.
Sources said NEWS that Biden’s re-election field was filled with people who had little experience because few wanted to work with the outgoing president or move to his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
Worse, they didn’t believe Harris could fully understand that she was inheriting the same sinking ship just 100 days before voters went to the polls.
‘Kamala didn’t want to change things. “She thought what she could do was install certain people in leadership roles to make sure she got the campaign she wanted,” a source said.
When Harris’s people tried to change things, they encountered strong resistance from campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon, who wanted to run an “insular and micromanaged” campaign dominated by analytics.
“If you believe that campaigns matter – and if you look at Tammy Baldwin, Jacky Rosen, Rubén Gallego and even Bob Casey in many ways – if you believe that campaigns matter and that’s why the results are a little different, then you have to say that lost because of his campaign,” said an anonymous agent.
Dillon also rejected any intellectual diversity and only hired staff who supported it.
“There was no one who had a different point of view. And anyone with a different point of view was always left out.’
That campaign includes a culture that was problematic for minority staff, despite ongoing concerns about appearing too “woke” in an attempt to appease the far left.
Multiple sources said black attendees had been “mistreated and demoralized” to the point that some wanted to file formal complaints but did not, fearing it would harm their careers.
Many of the staff seemed to have a “nine to five mentality” in a world where campaigns have to be on at all hours.
Others worried that Harris was going too far against the Biden administration, demanding that a Palestinian speaker be allowed on the Democratic National Committee amid the war in Gaza following the October 7 terrorist attacks.
Sources say the national security team took it down, drawing widespread criticism from left-wing activists and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
However, many of the Harris campaign’s problems appear to stem from preparation.
While there was a lot of talk about how Elon Musk was running Donald Trump’s vote-getting operation, Harris had a hard time assembling the team of 90,000 volunteers.
When they did, many lacked adequate literature or topics of conversation. Worse still, more than a million signs were not ready to go up until late October.
Others wonder if they underestimated the anger over how Trump was able to label Harris an extremist on transgender issues.
Their data team saw no reason to respond to the infamous “Kamala is for them” commercial.
While Harris shares the blame, many wonder what exactly he could have done with the amount of time he had.
“They didn’t give him much campaign infrastructure,” one aide said. “And it was very difficult for that infrastructure to really reflect it.”
As Democrats still try to recover from their loss to Trump earlier this week, the Biden and Harris teams are blaming each other for wasting their money.
White House and campaign workers ruthlessly continue their blame game over whether the president or vice president really dropped the ball.