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Harris never led Trump, internal polls showed — but DNC officials were kept in the dark


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-aides-admit-she-never-surpassed-trump-internal-polls-suggest-campaign-doomed

A top aide to Vice President Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign recently revealed that internal polls never actually saw her defeating President-elect Donald Trump, but apparently this was not conveyed to those collecting high-dollar donations for her bid.

"That's not what we were told," DNC National Finance Committee member and Harris campaign fundraiser Lindy Li shared with Fox News Digital.

"We were told definitely that she had a shot at winning – it wasn't even a shot. I was even told that Pennsylvania was looking good, that we would win 3-4 swing states."

"And on the night of election night… we were told that we were going to win Iowa."

But Harris senior adviser David Plouffe presented a much different analysis of the vice president's chances at that point in time on "Pod Save America," a show hosted by staffers of former President Barack Obama.

"We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day," he told the hosts in the episode which aired on Tuesday."

"I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw."

Plouffe, along with other top Harris aides Jen O'Malley Dillon, Stephanie Cutter and Quentin Fulks, joined the podcast to share why they believed they lost the election.


While the top advisers on the campaign were apparently aware of Harris' polling deficit, this information was seemingly obscured to other relevant parties, including those soliciting capital from donors, such as Li."

According to Li, it is "absolutely not" normal for a campaign to obscure this type of information.

"I've been doing this since I graduated from college more than a decade [ago]. Absolutely not."

She also shared that donors' trust will need to be gained back because of the daylight between what the campaign was telegraphing about its situation and the reality. "But like for some casual donors, they're going to be like, no f---ing way," Li said."

"It's not that he'd 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."


Yes.. Yes it was. It was a Decisive ass beating, he steamrolled her ass and as for her being ahead in Iowa?? Look, Ann Selzer hates Trump and what she did was imagined Harris being ahead by a certain number which was 7 points and she stuck with it despite not being true and everyone in the Liberal MSM Bought into it because she could do no wrong. It's sort of like the episode of SEINFELD where Jerry has to take a lie detector test to prove whether or not he watched MELROSE PLACE and when pressed for advice on how to beat it, George says "Jerry, it's not a lie if YOU believe it" and that's what happened and it forced this woman into retirement because her credibility was shot

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Of course not, that’s why polls are unreliable.

No doubt that some of her donors are feeling scammed and shafted that she wasted billions with millions in debt.

Obama thought he was checkmating Trump by replacing Biden with Scamala. Never bluff a 5D chess player.

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Why is Obama responsible for replacing Biden? Is it because he is black?

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but muh liberal said everyone loved her and she was going to win. lol

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She did win! He cheated!

Oh wait, they're too tired to even try that.

Quitters.

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I think being behind in the polls is an actually an advantage. If your candidate is comfortably ahead you will probably be less likely to go out and vote because you think they are going to win anyway. But if they are a little behind, people get motivated to get out there because they need every vote they can get.

Most people have a perception that their vote doesn’t count, so a close race, with a slight disadvantage is probably as motivational as it gets for people.

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They wanted to make sure they'd have a chance to embezzle, I mean spend all that money.

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