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The Autopsy Begins
Once a campaign fails, the knives come out.
This morning, Christopher Cadelago, California Bureau Chief for Politico, tweeted this out:
Kamala Harris’s campaign ended with at least $20 million in debt, per two sources familiar. Harris raised over $1 billion and had $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16.
So, where did the money go? The internet is rife with rumors and none of it is well sourced. When the final FEC filings come out, we’ll really get an inside look at who got what.
There were indications last week that the Harris campaign was in a panic. National sales managers with large station groups were telling reporters that Harris was canceling large ad buys in North Carolina and moving them into Virginia. Then they heard that buys would be made on a daily basis.
This morning, the Thursday after the election, The New York Times reports that Future Forward, a progressive Super PAC, was telling Bill Clinton that Trump’s ad featuring radio host Charlamagne Tha God complaining about Harris’ support of taxpayer-provided transgender surgeries was moving the needle among black and Latino men by over 2.7 points. Clinton begged the campaign to answer, and they assured him the ads weren’t as effective as he thought they were. That’s malfeasance.
And there will be more to come.
Published in General
She was too slow witted to have prepared an answer to a question which was both a lay-up and easily anticipated. She was supposed to be a Candidate of Change, for Crisssake.
We have REALLY dodged a bullet with the re-election of Mr Trump. How grateful am I that he turned his head to the right that evening.
Hillary also went through a primary. Kamala managed to do this in 110 days.
The part I have bolded is a travesty that keeps a lot of good, honorable people away from running for political office. As with so many “bright ideas” the intention (in this case transparency in government) might be honorable and noble, but almost inevitably the implementation becomes a mess that often defeats intent.
Agreed a thousandfold.
You had me at ‘even race-ier’.
But…but I have been assured that it is Trump who is unwilling to listen to people around him.
Trump does often appear unwilling to listen to advice (I would hate to be his lawyer), but he does seem to learn quickly and to adapt. It always seems to take a lot of work and a lot of time to get Harris to absorb information. And even then she gets stuck at the memorized response stage, and does not appear to fully absorb the information.
And Trump did tell us he listened to the advice of the campaign worker who insisted he wear the reflective vest from the garbage truck onto the stage after the worker identified the motivation to use – saying it made him look thinner. :)