Harris never led Trump, internal polls showed — but DNC officials were kept in the dark
A senior aide to Vice President Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign recently revealed that internal polling did not see her defeating President-elect Donald Trump, but apparently this was not conveyed to those who collected large-dollar donations for her bid.
“That’s not what we were told,” DNC National Finance Committee Member and Harris campaign fundraiser Lindy Li shared with Fox News Digital.
“We were told for sure that he was going to win – it wasn’t even a shot. I was even told that Pennsylvania looked good, we were going to win 3-4 swing states.”
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Harris’ senior campaign adviser, David Plouffe, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Trump was due to electoral weakness in battleground states. (Getty Images)
“And on election night … we were told we were going to win Iowa.”
But Harris senior adviser David Plouffe presented a very different analysis of the vice president’s chances at the time on “Pod Save America,” a show hosted by former President Barack Obama’s staff.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he told the show’s presenters on Tuesday’s episode.
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As President Barack Obama holds a news conference, staffers, from left, communications director Dan Pfeiffer, deputy communications director Jen Psaki, senior adviser David Plouffe and press secretary Jay Carney listen in the East Room of the White House on June 29, 2011. (Photo by (AP/Charles Dharapak, File)
“I think people were surprised because there were these public polls that came out at the end of September, at the beginning of October, showing us clues that we have never seen before.”
Plouffe, along with other top Harris aides Jen O’Malley Dillon, Stephanie Cutter and Quentin Fulks, joined the podcast to share why they believe they lost the election.
Although top campaign advisers were aware of Harris’ poll deficit, the information appeared to be hidden from other parties involved, including those soliciting money from donors, such as Li.
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Jen O’Malley Dillon, campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris, before Harris gave her acceptance speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, Nov. 6, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
According to Li, it is “absolutely not” common for this type of information to be hidden.
“I’ve been doing this since I graduated from college for over ten years [ago]. Not at all.”
He also pointed out that the trust of donors will need to be restored because of the light of day between what the campaign was telegraphing about its status and the truth. “But just like other donors, they’re going to be like f—ing way,” Li said.
DNC member Lindy Li talks to Fox & Friends Weekend about why Harris’ campaign ended in such a “disaster.” (Fox Stories)
“It’s not that he hit him that’s scary. The way he hit him. It wasn’t close at all. It was a decisive defeat.”
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Harris was anti-Trump and even beat him in a popular national poll, which Plouffe acknowledged.
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“When Kamala Harris became the nominee, she was behind. We said, you know, we rode back, even after the debate, you know, we were still down, you know, in the field districts, but very close. And so, I think, in the end, it was a jump- ball,” he said.
