Kamala Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon gave her first interview since election day to Pod Save America and said it was a completely bulls**t narrative that Kamala Harris was not doing enough interviews or that she was scared of interviews. As all the key persons of Kamala Harris’ campaign appeared in the interview, they dismissed any mistake on the part of the campaign and said they had less time.
The campaign said the election result was the price to be paid for Kamala Harris’ shortened campaign against Trump — indirectly putting the blame of Joe Biden who opted out of the race in June.
“I do think a narrative, 107 days… two weeks talking about how she didn’t do interviews, which you know she was doing plenty, but we were doing in our own way, we had to be the nominee, we had to find a running mate, and do a roll-out, I mean there was all these things that you kind of want to factor in. But real people heard, in some way, that we were not going to have interviews, which was both not true and also so counter to any kind of standard that was put on Trump, that I think that was a problem,” Dillon said. Apart from Dillon, top Harris campaign officials David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter were also present at the interview.
“Being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything, or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bulls**t, and also like took hold a little bit, and we just, it gave us another thing we had to fight back for that Trump never had to worry about,” Dillion said.
Harris’ campaign complained that the questions Kamala Harris was getting were small, processy and dumb and they were not informing a voter more about her.
“I’m not here to say that you know the whole system was focused on us incorrectly,” Cutter added. “That does a disservice to voters and I think back and think, we should have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were trying to reach, but we had a limited amount of time to reach the people we were trying to reach.”