Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign will likely go down as a case study in political mismanagement, tone-deaf messaging, and the perils of believing your own hype. While the media gaslit the public with rosy polls showing Harris neck-and-neck with President Trump—or even leading in improbable places like Iowa—the reality behind the scenes was far grimmer. As campaign advisor David Plouffe admitted on Pod Save America, their internal polling told a very different story: Harris was never actually ahead of Trump.
The writing was on the wall long before Election Day. Democrat strategist James Carville pinpointed the campaign’s fatal moment: Harris’s disastrous appearance on The View. When Sunny Hostin asked if Harris would have done anything differently than Joe Biden, her robotic response—”There is not a thing that comes to mind”—signaled to voters that she was offering four more years of the same failed policies. If Harris couldn’t even pretend to differentiate herself from Biden, why would voters give her a second chance?
Adding insult to injury, legacy media worked overtime to prop up Harris’s flailing campaign with dubious polls. One of the most egregious examples came from Ann Selzer, whose survey suggested Harris was leading Trump by three points in Iowa—a state Trump ultimately won by a massive 13-point margin. That’s a 16-point miss. The media repeatedly cited junk polls like these to embolden Harris supporters and demoralize Trump’s base, but the result was a complete collapse of credibility when the numbers didn’t pan out.
Plouffe and other Harris campaign veterans admitted during their podcast postmortem that they never bought into the media narrative. “There were these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,” Plouffe said. In other words, the campaign knew it was doomed, but the media continued the charade in hopes of influencing the electorate.
Here’s where Kamala Harris advisor David Plouffe admits internal polling never showed Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in battleground states — even after spending $1 billion pic.twitter.com/AVnH2kfll7
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 27, 2024
This debacle exposes not only the incompetence of Harris’s team but also the blatant bias of the so-called “journalists” who acted more like her campaign’s PR wing. Rather than report the truth, legacy media pushed a fantasy to prop up a candidate they knew was floundering. Voters saw through it, delivering Trump a landslide victory.
Harris’s defeat wasn’t just a rejection of her candidacy—it was a repudiation of the media’s shameless manipulation.
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