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.

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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.

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    3 days ago

    Are the implications really that staggering? Are you unable to believe the DNC would lie? They do it all the time, this is hardly news. It just confirms what we already knew at the time, which is that Biden had no chance and all polling supported that conclusion.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Yep, the DNC is a private organization and can mostly operate however they want. The real problem is the duopoly between the 2 parties that prevents any real progress. As long as each party control roughly half of the government they will keep fighting to maintain the status quo.

      • djsoren19@yiffit.net
        7·
        2 days ago

        I’d argue it’s worse, and that they’re a controlled opposition party. The Republicans fight to drag America backward, and then Dems call that the new status quo they must defend.

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 days ago

          It seems that way, but there’s no way to prove it. And I’d argue it doesn’t matter because the solution would be the same either way: break up the R and D duopoly.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            In October saying this got you banned from .world and people saying you hate America.

            Fuckin wild. I’m glad people are waking up to the unique American horseshit that is our political system.