David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ failed White House campaign, suggested their internal data did not match public polls that showed Harris ahead of now-President-elect Donald Trump.
The observation was made in a post-mortem discussion with several leading Harris campaign staffers about “what went wrong” for them in the 2024 presidential election on the latest episode of the “Pod Save America” podcast.
“I think it surprised people,” Plouffe said, “because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw … it was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46-47, 47-48.”
Harris entered the race in July, shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out under…
