The Harris-Walz Campaign team’s recent appearance on ‘Pod Save America’ shows how operatives who have spent their entire careers cycling through campaigns, corporate boardrooms, and consulting firms produced a campaign that failed to inspire or connect with voters.

From the Article:

For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That’s the thinking with the elctoral college. Since most states are winner-take-all, a narrow victory can make an electoral landslide.

    In 1984, Reagan won 58% of the popular vote - which is impressive, but nowhere near unanimous.

    But due to how the system works, he won 98 percent of the electoral vote. Mundane only won in Minnesota and DC.

    It was super close in Minnesota (only about 4000 votes).

    DC was a crazy landslide, though. They HATED Reagan, who only took 13% of the vote in DC.