Nate Silver Slams Harris Campaign Aides Over Post-Election Takes: ‘No Will Of Their Own’ | EUROtoday

Polling pundit Nate Silver ripped senior advisers to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid on Wednesday after a former high marketing campaign official claimed that there was a “double standard” for the vp and Donald Trump when it got here to their media methods.

“The Harris campaign folks are the most non-agentic people I’ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority,” wrote Silver, founding father of the polling evaluation web site FiveThirtyEight, in a put up to X (previously Twitter).

“They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own.”

Former Harris marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, in an interview on “Pod Save America” that aired earlier this week, declared that the president-elect “got no shit” for doing much less “traditional media” appearances than Harris.

O’Malley Dillion — who was joined by fellow advisers from the marketing campaign David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter — later claimed that Harris, “got shit” for her method in comparison with Trump.

Silver took to X on Wednesday to notice that Harris didn’t do a solo community TV interview as a candidate till 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,” he added.

“That was the campaign’s choice, not some conspiracy.”

Silver, who has known as on President Joe Biden to resign and claimed that he did Harris “no favors” after he dropped out of the 2024 race, joined quite a few critics who’ve knocked the advisers’ post-election evaluation.

Astead Herndon, a political reporter for The New York Times, bought into it on X with “Pod Save America” host and former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau after he referred to a clip from the podcast episode as a “good ad for the importance of independent media.”

Wilmington College political historical past professor Keith Orejel additionally went after Plouffe, a former marketing campaign supervisor to Obama’s 2008 presidential bid, for urging Democrats to “dominate the moderate vote” in remarks on the podcast.

“We are listening to someone talk about how to win an election that they literally just lost,” he wrote on X.

CNN’s Bakari Sellers instructed CNN that the podcast was “disappointing at best” as he heard the ex-campaign officers’ “lack of self-awareness” and self-reflection.

“So I think everybody needs to take a moment of self-reflection, including myself, to figure out how we can get better for 2025,” stated Sellers on Wednesday.

“People are talking about 2028. If we get smacked in 2025, in New Jersey and Virginia, then you blow it up. But until then, people just need to stop wanting to hear themselves talk.”