A top adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign recently revealed that internal polling never saw her defeat President-elect Donald Trump, but this apparently didn’t carry over to those raising large dollar donations for her candidacy.
“That’s not what we were told,” Lindy Li, a DNC National Finance Committee member and Harris campaign fundraiser, shared with Fox News Digital.
“They definitely told us she had a chance to win; it wasn’t even a chance. They even told me Pennsylvania looked good, that we would win 3 or 4 swing states.”
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Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe said Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Trump was due to electoral weaknesses in battleground states. (Getty Images)
“And on election night… they told us we were going to win Iowa.”
But Harris’ senior adviser, David Plouffe, presented a very different analysis of the vice president’s chances at the time in “I could save America“, a program presented by employees of former President Barack Obama.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he told the hosts in the episode that aired Tuesday.
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As President Barack Obama holds a news conference, staff, from left, Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, Deputy Communications Director Jen Psaki, Senior Advisor David Plouffe and Press Secretary Jay Carney listen in the East Room of the White House on June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
“I think it surprised people because there were public surveys that came out in late September, early October, and they showed us clues we’d never seen before.”
Plouffe, along with other top Harris advisers Jen O’Malley Dillon, Stephanie Cutter and Quentin Fulks, joined the podcast to share why they believed they lost the election.
While top campaign advisors were apparently aware of Harris’ deficit in the polls, this information was apparently hidden from other relevant parties, including those soliciting capital from donors, such as Li.
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Jen O’Malley Dillon, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign manager, before Harris gives her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 6, 2024. (Saúl Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
According to Li, it is “not at all” normal for a campaign to hide this type of information.
“I’ve been doing this since I graduated from college over a decade ago. [ago]. At all.”
He also shared that donors’ trust will need to be regained because of the difference between what the campaign was telegraphing about their situation and reality. “But like some casual donors, they’re going to be like, no way,” Li said.
Democratic National Committee member Lindy Li talks to Fox & Friends Weekend about why Harris’ campaign ended in such a “disaster.” (Fox News)
“It’s not that he beat her that’s a shock. It’s the extent to which he beat her. It wasn’t even close. It was a decisive defeat.”
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Harris had rivaled and even defeated Trump in numerous respected public polls across the country, which Plouffe acknowledged in his appearance.
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“When Kamala Harris became the nominee, she was behind. We kind of, you know, went backwards, and even after the debate, you know, we still had ourselves down, you know, in the battleground states, but very close.” .And so I think in the end it was a jumping race,” he said.
