Data reporter Nate Silver blasted top aides to Vice President Kamala Harris as “willing non-player characters” after they appeared to avoid blame for the Democrats’ disastrous election loss.
Silver reacted on X to an interview Pod Save America conducted with Harris campaign officials, including Jen O’Malley Dillon and Stephanie Cutter, who insisted the Democratic candidate gave interviews to the press after President Joe Biden left from the race in the past. summer.
President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory earlier this month has Democrats and their supporters second-guessing Harris’ strategy of avoiding media interviews in the early stages of her campaign — only to ‘returned as she realized she was losing ground in public. opinion polls.
When Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama official and host of Pod Save America, commented that Harris “did more traditional media” than President-elect Donald Trump, Cutter, a senior adviser to Harris, agreed, saying said: “Trump did nothing.”
“And I don’t give a damn about that,” said O’Malley Dillon, campaign chairman.
“We got sh—t,” O’Malley Dillon said. “I’m saying Trump has no sh-t.”
Cutter agreed, saying, “Oh, yeah. We got a lot of sh-t about her not doing enough media.”
Pfeiffer agreed, adding, “He didn’t get any sh—t.”
O’Malley Dillon criticized what she called a “double standard.”
“Like, don’t even get me started on this,” Cutter said.
Silver, however, was having none of it, writing in X: “Harris didn’t do a solo network interview until late September. Who cares, well, networks don’t matter that much.”
“Then she did a set towards the end of the race. But she was legit not doing much traditional media. This was a campaign choice, not some conspiracy,” wrote the founder of forecast and data news site 538.
Silver described Harris’ campaign officials as “the most non-agentic people I’ve met in a position of comparable decision-making authority.”
“They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as NPCs without their will,” he wrote.
Silver also responded to a comment from O’Malley Dillon in which she complained that Harris’ campaign had “two more weeks because of the hurricane.”
“There’s a lot going on here and it’s all worth reading, but the idea that the hurricane was a massive October surprise that specifically disadvantaged Harris is so strange,” Silver wrote, noting that states affected by storms were easily won by Trump.
“Relatively speaking, NC/GA even showed less vote swing than other swing states.”
O’Malley Dillon and Cutter were not immediately available for comment.
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