Information journalist Nate Silver criticized high aides to Vice President Kamala Harris as “non-player characters with no will of their own” after they appeared to shirk blame for the Democrat’s disastrous election loss.
Silver reacted on X to an interview that “Pod Save America” performed with Harris marketing campaign officers together with Jen O’Malley Dillon and Stephanie Cutter, who insisted that the Democratic nominee granted interviews to the press after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race this previous summer time.
President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory earlier this month has Democrats and their supporters second-guessing Harris’ technique, which was to largely shun media interviews within the preliminary phases of her marketing campaign — solely to pivot as soon as she realized that she was dropping floor in public opinion polls.
When Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama official and “Pod Save America” host commented that Harris “did more traditional media” than President-elect Donald Trump, Cutter, a senior adviser to Harris, agreed, saying: “Trump did none.”
“And got no sh-t for that,” O’Malley Dillon, the marketing campaign chair, stated.
“We got sh-t,” O’Malley Dillon stated. “I’m saying Trump got no sh-t.”
Cutter agreed, saying: “Oh, yes. We got tons of sh-t that she wasn’t doing enough media.”
Pfeiffer concurred, including: “He got no sh-t.”
O’Malley Dillon decried what she referred to as a “double standard.”
“Like, don’t even get me going on that,” Cutter stated.
Silver, nevertheless, wasn’t having any of it, writing on X: “Harris didn’t do a solo network interview until late September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don’t matter so much.”
“Then she did a bunch toward the end of the race. But she was legit not doing a lot of traditional media. That was the campaign’s choice, not some conspiracy,” the founding father of the 538 prognostication and knowledge information website wrote.
Silver described Harris marketing campaign officers as “the most non-agentic people I’ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority.”
“They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own,” he wrote.
Silver additionally reacted to a remark from O’Malley Dillon by which she lamented the truth that the Harris marketing campaign had “two weeks f–ked up because of the hurricane.”
“There’s a lot going on here and whole thing worth reading but the idea the hurricane was some massive October surprise that specifically disadvantaged Harris is just so weird,” Silver wrote, noting that the states affected by the storm had been simply gained by Trump.
“Relatively speaking, NC/GA even showed less vote swing than other swing states.”
O’Malley Dillon and Cutter weren’t instantly accessible for remark.
