Podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">Joe Rogan</a> weighed in on an insane rant from Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) boss Kim Williams, who claimed Rogan preys on “people’s vulnerabilities.”
“LOL WUT,” the host of “The Joe Rogan Podcast” wrote on Wednesday on <a href="https://x.com/joerogan/status/1861806984967688372">X</a> as he reacted to the clip of Williams’ tirade against him and the power he said he has in America following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14130579/ABC-Kim-Williams-Joe-Rogan-podcast-attack.html">the clip</a>, a reporter asked Williams, “In the wake of the U.S. election, the Democrats have said that one of Kamala Harris’ mistakes was that she didn’t appear on his program. So I was just wondering if you had any observations what’s behind the Joe Rogan effect?”
&#8220;I think people like Mr. Rogan prey on people&#8217;s vulnerabilities,” Williams told the National Press Club. &#8220;They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative.”
&#8220;I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief,” he added. “I&#8217;m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it&#8217;s really treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
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Ahead of the election, then-former President <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY">Donald Trump</a> sat down with Rogan and had a wide-ranging conversation for three hours in a podcast that has since garnered more than 50 million views.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview">Rogan</a> made it clear he had offered to sit down with Harris, too, and revealed that he had given her team an “open invitation” to appear on his show.
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During “The Joe Rogan Experience” <a href="https://youtu.be/t5_EdPRLHuE">podcast</a>, the host said that it was Harris’ team who first reached out to him about appearing on his show after her campaign learned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Trump</a> was coming in for an interview.
“She [Harris] had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas and I literally gave them an open invitation,” Rogan said, hitting back at claims he was somehow being a “diva” about their interview.
“I said, ‘anytime, if she’s done at ten o’clock we’ll come back here at ten o’clock,’” he added. “I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at ten p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up and she wants to drink a Red Bull, f***ing party on.&#8221;
“So their camp reached out to me, so I said, ‘great. I would love to talk to her,’” Rogan continued. “But it was very difficult to tie it down. They wanted to travel and see, the thing is, if I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room, and they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure, according to the Bret Baier interview on Fox. That’s a distraction.”
The podcast host said that his goal was to simply sit down across the table from Harris and have a conversation, to get to know the person who wants to become the President of the United States as a human being — as he did with Trump.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I Gave Them An Open Invitation’: Rogan Opens Up More About Potential Kamala Interview</a>

Joe Rogan

‘LOL WUT’: Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Australia

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

Media

Podcast

U.S.

Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign chair Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon blew off criticisms during a recent appearance on the liberal podcast &#8220;Pod Save America,&#8221; claiming that Harris&#8217; obvious avoidance of tough interviews was just perception driven by &#8220;the narrative.&#8221;
Dillon joined several of the campaign&#8217;s top officials — David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter — for their first interview since Harris lost her 2024 White House bid to President-elect Donald Trump, and their post-mortem focused on the failures of the American people to see through media narratives rather than any possible faults in their own candidate or campaign.
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Harris campaign chair Jen O&#39;Malley Dillon: &quot;Being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bullsh*t, and also, like, took hold a little bit. And we just gave us another thing we had to fight back for that Trump never… <a href="https://t.co/sazkll4afT">pic.twitter.com/sazkll4afT</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1861471372670550412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I do think a narrative, 107 days … two weeks talking about how she didn&#8217;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,&#8221; Dillon complained.
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She went on to argue that Trump — who, along with Vice President-elect JD Vance, was doing dozens of rallies and interviews — was not being held to the same standard as Harris, which she said further complicated matters.
&#8220;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,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Being up against a narrative that we weren&#8217;t doing anything, or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bulls***, 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.&#8221;
Dillon also complained that the questions Harris often got when she did make appearances were frequently &#8220;processy,&#8221; meaning that they did not do much to help voters get a better view of Harris or her policies.

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Kamala Campaign Chair Blames ‘Narrative’ For People Thinking They Avoided Interviews

Kamala Campaign Chair Blames 'Narrative' For People Thinking They Avoided Interviews

2024 Election

Politics

A popular YouTube show called &#8220;Hot Ones&#8221; turned down then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris&#8217; request to appear on the show, saying that they wanted to steer clear of politics.
The revelation was made this week when top Harris aides appeared on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-adviser-public-polls-showed-leads-over-trump-that-we-never-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pod Save America</a>,” where they discussed what went wrong in the campaign.
“&#8217;Hot Ones,&#8217; which is a great show, they didn’t wanna do any politics, so they weren’t going to take us or him,” senior campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/us-news/youtube-show-hot-ones-turned-down-kamala-harris-pre-election-interview-request/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post. “So that was the issue.”
&#8220;Hot Ones&#8221; features celebrities and other special guests eating increasingly hot wings while host Sean Evans interviews them.
Cutter said the Harris team got the same reaction from other types of non-political media they tried to book. Now-President-elect Donald Trump, however, did not have the same issue, the top aides confided.
“I don’t think he had the same problem,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, Harris&#8217; campaign manager, told the podcast. Trump “certainly was able to tap into some cultural elements in ways that we couldn’t,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; co-host <span class="c5aZPb" role="button" data-enable-toggle-animation="true" data-extra-container-classes="ZLo7Eb" data-hover-hide-delay="1000" data-hover-open-delay="500" data-send-open-event="true" data-theme="0" data-width="250" data-ved="2ahUKEwiu_aS9kv2JAxUHLtAFHYYQAOUQmpgGegQIGxAS">Dan Pfeiffer said Harris was &#8220;better suited&#8221; for the show than any other candidate in history.
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&#8220;The idea that it would be more politically problematic to have on Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president of the United States, than Donald Trump, a man who’s been convicted of a crime and tried to violently overthrow the election,&#8221; <span class="c5aZPb" role="button" data-enable-toggle-animation="true" data-extra-container-classes="ZLo7Eb" data-hover-hide-delay="1000" data-hover-open-delay="500" data-send-open-event="true" data-theme="0" data-width="250" data-ved="2ahUKEwiu_aS9kv2JAxUHLtAFHYYQAOUQmpgGegQIGxAS">Pfeiffer complained. 
During the same episode, the Harris team discussed why their candidate never appeared on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; podcast despite an invite. Much has been made over the omission, since it&#8217;s the most popular podcast in the world and has an exceptionally large young male audience &#8212; a demo Harris did not deliver in.
Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe shockingly suggested host Joe Rogan did not have pure intentions and was using the invite as “leverage” so now-President-elect Donald Trump would appear in the Austin-based studio.
“So what’s clear is we offered to do it in Austin, people should know that,” Plouffe said. “It didn’t work out. Maybe they leveraged that to get Trump in studio, I don’t know.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-kamala-aide-makes-shocking-excuse-for-skipping-joe-rogan-podcast?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Kamala Aide Makes Shocking Excuse For Skipping Joe Rogan Podcast</a>

Kamala Harris Participates In CNN Town Hall In Philadelphia

Popular ‘Hot Ones’ Internet Show Turned Down Kamala Interview

Popular ‘Hot Ones’ Internet Show Turned Down Kamala Harris Interview 

Elections

Democrat strategist Theryn Bond is not on board with a potential third presidential run for Vice President Kamala Harris, who recently lost the 2024 election to President-elect Donald Trump and failed to launch her 2020 bid past the end of 2019.
Bond joined the hosts of Newsmax&#8217;s &#8220;National Report&#8221; on Tuesday when the conversation turned to Harris&#8217; political future — which, according to a report from POLITICO, could include either a third run for the White House or a run for governor in her home state of California.
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&quot;I hope [Kamala Harris] doesn&#39;t [run for president in &#39;28]. And if she is relying on those same advisers that advised her this cycle, that&#39;s not who I would listen to.&quot;
— Theryn Bond, Democratic strategist<a href="https://twitter.com/WalkingMicDrop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WalkingMicDrop</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LukeTBall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LukeTBall</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmaRechenberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmaRechenberg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Glasgow_Jon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Glasgow_Jon</a> <a href="https://t.co/CdYm1qWr4B">pic.twitter.com/CdYm1qWr4B</a>
&mdash; NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1861448581217165456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When asked whether she thought Harris was making the right decision when she promised donors and allies that she intended to stay &#8220;in the fight,&#8221; Bond made it clear that she didn&#8217;t believe that fight should extend to another presidential campaign.
&#8220;Not to run for president again in 2028. Please don’t,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I can’t really speak for governor of California. Californians seem to support her significantly,&#8221; Bond continued. &#8220;We haven’t yet been able to measure what that support looks like after this current run she just had. That may be the only thing that she, I guess, may make sense for her to consider, but another shot at the presidency, I hope she doesn’t, and if she is relying on those same advisers that advised her this cycle, that’s not who I would listen to.&#8221;
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Bond is not the only one who&#8217;s not thrilled about a possible third Harris campaign. Democrat megadonor John Morgan also cautioned her against another attempt, criticizing her campaign for blowing through more than $1 billion and still coming up empty in 2024.
Morgan told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo that Harris&#8217; mismanagement of her campaign and money &#8220;disqualified her forever,&#8221; adding that she &#8220;cannot be trusted with the money.&#8221;
&#8220;If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money, and the donors are going to be, like, ‘Where is this money?’&#8221;
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Democrat Strategist Is Not Sold On Kamala 2028: ‘Please Don’t’

Democrat Strategist Is Not Sold On Kamala 2028: 'Please Don't'

Top aides of the failed Kamala Harris presidential campaign appeared this week on &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-adviser-public-polls-showed-leads-over-trump-that-we-never-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pod Save America</a>,&#8221; where they discussed what went wrong, including why Harris never appeared on the most popular podcast in the world, &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; after an invite.
Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe shockingly suggested host Joe Rogan did not have pure intentions and was using the invite as &#8220;leverage&#8221; so now-President-elect Donald Trump would appear in the Austin-based studio.
&#8220;So what’s clear is we offered to do it in Austin, people should know that,&#8221; Plouffe said. &#8220;It didn’t work out. Maybe they leveraged that to get Trump in studio, I don’t know.&#8221;
Stephanie Cutter, another senior Harris campaign adviser, claimed the team just couldn&#8217;t make a date work for the extremely popular podcast.
&#8220;We had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team, they were great, they wanted us to come on, we wanted to come on, we tried to get a date to make it work and, ultimately, we just weren’t able to find a date. We did go to Houston and she gave a great speech at an amazing event,&#8221; Cutter said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-campaign-aides-suggest-trumps-sit-down-joe-rogan-blame-her-not-joining-podcast?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News.
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&#8220;We were hoping to fit it in around that but ultimately weren’t able to do it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;As it turns out, that was the day that Trump was taping his Joe Rogan [appearance], which they had never confirmed to us. We just kind of figured that out in the lead-up to it. You know, she was ready, willing to go on Joe Rogan.&#8221;
Despite evidence that shows Trump&#8217;s Rogan appearance helped him with younger males, Cutter insisted that keeping Harris off the podcast didn&#8217;t make a difference in the election. &#8220;It didn’t ultimately impact the outcome one way or another, but she (Harris) was willing to do whatever it takes,&#8221; Cutter said.
However, Jennifer Palmieri, senior adviser to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, gave another reason for skipping the podcast. She <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/harris-backed-out-joe-rogan-podcast-over-backlash-progressive-staff-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Financial Times that the appearance didn&#8217;t work out &#8220;because of concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic Party.&#8221;
&#8220;There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,&#8221; she said.
On social media platform X, politicos were not convinced by the explanations. Some pointed out that Harris decided to make time for the sketch comedy show &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; which has much lower ratings than &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience.&#8221;
&#8220;Kamala Harris &#8216;left the battleground&#8217; to appear on SNL&#8230; which has far fewer viewers/listeners than Joe Rogan,&#8221; one <a href="https://x.com/trippwhitbeck/status/1861513190892273695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comment</a> read.
&#8220;I don’t know who is more incompetent, Kamala Harris the candidate or her campaign team that blew through more than a $1 billion and got crushed,&#8221; Steve Cortes wrote. &#8220;Her campaign is now claiming &#8216;Kamala didn’t have time&#8217; to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast but they really wanted to!&#8221;
&#8220;It’s the #1 podcast in the world, and they couldn’t make time,&#8221; he said.
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I don’t know who is more incompetent, Kamala Harris the candidate or her campaign team that blew through more than a $1 billion and got crushed.
Her campaign is now claiming “Kamala didn’t have time” to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast but they really wanted to!
It’s the #1 podcast in… <a href="https://t.co/nZ7MNLmmIQ">pic.twitter.com/nZ7MNLmmIQ</a>
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1861496628508582246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
Jeff Carlson called out the Harris team for &#8220;lying.&#8221; &#8220;Even during the post-mortem of her campaign,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;the Harris people blatantly lie.&#8221;
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Even during the post-mortem of her campaign the Harris people blatantly lie
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) <a href="https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1861494429431050631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-reveals-kamalas-demands-to-do-jre-podcast-rogan-doesnt-agree" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan Reveals Kamala’s Podcast Demands. Rogan Doesn’t Agree</a>

Joe Rogan Kamala Harris

Top Kamala Aide Makes Shocking Excuse For Skipping Joe Rogan Podcast

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> was criticized online after the Democratic Party posted a video of her on Tuesday evening that many on social media said showed what appeared to be her in an inebriated state.
&#8220;I just have to remind you, don&#8217;t you ever let anybody take your power from you,&#8221; Harris said in a video address to her supporters.
&#8220;You have the same power that you did before November 5th and you have the same purpose that you did and you have the same ability to engage and inspire,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So don&#8217;t ever let anybody or circumstance take your power from you.&#8221;
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Vice President <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a>’ message to supporters. <a href="https://t.co/x5xMUGTtkz">pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz</a>
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1861550359161745529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
Thousands of users on X speculated that Harris had been drinking based on the way she appeared while making the remarks.
&#8220;Honestly I saw a lot of the chatter about Kamala and alcohol over the last year and didn’t pay much mind but … wow yeah she’s wasted,&#8221; said author Bethany S. Mandel. &#8220;I understand that whoever did this did it as revenge. But here’s what I take from it: She’s got a problem. And Democrats knew it and put her up anyway. Just like they knew that Biden had a problem and covered it up. They created a trust deficit that will take years to regain.&#8221;
Trump adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X: &#8220;Take some time to reflect on the fact that they posted this on purpose.&#8221;
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&#8220;She’s totally hosed,&#8221; said political commentator Jack Posobiec.
&#8220;I’m not sure you guys want to be amplifying this,&#8221; said media analyst Joe Concha. &#8220;There’s something, ummmm, off with the vice president.&#8221;
&#8220;She looks like she just got back from a three week bender,&#8221; said journalist Jordan Schachtel.
&#8220;She looks, and sounds, smashed,&#8221; said writer John Podhoretz. &#8220;And you know it.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-addresses-supporters-says-nothing-leaves-them-feeling-even-more-deflated">Kamala Addresses Supporters, Says Nothing, Leaves Them Feeling Even More Deflated</a>

Vice President Kamala Harris hold a campaign rally in North Las Vegas

Internet Unloads On Kamala After New Video: ‘She Looks And Sounds Smashed’

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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; failed White House campaign, suggested their internal data did not match public polls that showed Harris ahead of now-President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
The observation was made in a post-mortem discussion with several leading Harris campaign staffers about &#8220;what went wrong&#8221; for them in the 2024 presidential election on the latest episode of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOpWp02WVs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; podcast</a>.
&#8220;I think it surprised people,&#8221; Plouffe said, &#8220;because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw &#8230; it was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46-47, 47-48.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-staffers-reveal-why-they-were-never-going-to-satisfy-anybody-on-the-biden-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Kamala Staffers Reveal Why They Were ‘Never Going To Satisfy Anybody’ On The ‘Biden Question’</a>
Harris entered the race in July, shortly after President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> dropped out under pressure from allies concerned about his mental capacity, age, and electability following a fumbling debate performance against Trump.
Plouffe said that the &#8220;Biden-Trump 1.0&#8221; match-up was &#8220;obviously pretty catastrophic in terms of where the race stood,&#8221; but he contended Harris was &#8220;able to climb out&#8221; from behind and make it a &#8220;margin-of-error race.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown</a> in the RealClearPolitics national poll average chart, Harris boasted a 2-point advantage from late September until early October. During the same period, Harris built a small <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">betting odds</a> lead before Trump caught up and ran away with it.
The Harris team&#8217;s &#8220;internal analytics&#8221; showed &#8220;47-47&#8221; in Wisconsin and &#8220;48-47 Trump&#8221; in Pennsylvania, recalled Plouffe, who noted they hoped to win over undecided voters and &#8220;get a little benefit from turnout, which we weren&#8217;t able to do.&#8221;
Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama&#8217;s successful 2008 White House bid and later become a senior advisor to the president, summarized the Harris team&#8217;s stance come Election Day as: &#8220;We were hopeful. I don’t know how optimistic we were.&#8221;
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Trump ended up winning all the battleground states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-cabinet-picks-are-so-ideologically-diverse-it-makes-cnns-scott-jennings-feel-squeamish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making gains</a> among working-class voters, minority groups, and young people. He also appears to have prevailed in the popular vote.
&#8220;I think the political atmosphere, the desire for change, all those fundamentals that you&#8217;ve spent a lot of time talking about really presented huge challenges for us.&#8221; Plouffe said. &#8220;So &#8230; we got there, but we didn&#8217;t get the breaks we needed.&#8221;

David Plouffe

Kamala Adviser: Public Polls Showed Leads Over Trump ‘That We Never Saw’

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> reportedly shelled out major donations — totaling half a million dollars — to a non-profit connected to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton prior to her interview with him.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported on Tuesday that the Harris campaign shelled out two six-figure donations — $250,000 on September 5 and another $250,000 on October 1 — to Sharpton’s National Action Network. Just two days after the second donation went through, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him a happy birthday — and on October 20, MSNBC aired a very friendly interview of Harris conducted by Sharpton.
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EXCLUSIVE <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FreeBeacon</a>: 
Kamala Harris campaign gave $500k to Al Sharpton&#39;s nonprofit just before a glowing interview with the MSNBC host. 
The remittance to Rev. Al part of $5.4 million that Harris gave to black and Latino groups. <a href="https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun">https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1856405851893899535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to Ross’ reporting, neither Harris nor Sharpton told MSNBC that the donations had been made.
Harris has faced scrutiny over finances since the campaign ended with her team over $20 million in debt even after raising well over $1 billion in just three months. Payments to celebrities for concerts and appearances at rallies have been questioned, including over $1 million paid to former talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s production team and a six-figure rebuild of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast set so that she could give the interview from Washington, D.C.
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Other major expenditures included hundreds of thousands for private air travel, along with six-figure donations to minority groups with whom she was struggling to make headway.
According to the Free Beacon’s report:
<blockquote>Team Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign gave donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Ladies Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), a black freemasons organization, according to <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00703975&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2024&amp;disbursement_description=contribution&amp;disbursement_description=donation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance disclosures</a>.  The Black Economic Alliance <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/black-business-leaders-make-a-final-push-for-harris-economic-plans-to-black-men-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a video call for 5,000 attendees days before the election to urge black men to vote for Harris. Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/harris-supporting-group-launches-4m-effort-mobilize-black-male-voters-rcna174414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an initiative to appeal to black church voters. Two of the organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute of Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/kamalas-criminal-justice-reform-comrade-accused-israel-and-america-of-apartheid-in-fiery-sermon-after-hamas-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Israel pastor</a> who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes.</blockquote>
Despite the lingering questions surrounding the Harris campaign’s spending habits, the VP has reportedly suggested that she would be open to running again in 2028 — either for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination or for governor of her home state of California.

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Kamala Paid Sharpton Group $500K Before Campaign Interview — Neither Told MSNBC

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> held a livestream to thank her supporters and grassroots volunteers, but their comments indicate that she left them feeling even more defeated and despondent than they were before they joined the call.
Harris held a joint event with her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz today, telling her supporters that she is “proud of the race we ran,” and that “we still have a lot to fight for.” The Harris voters on the call, however, found themself underwhelmed, deflated, and in some cases, upset by the failed candidate’s remarks.
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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz just called together all their supporters for a Zoom call.
It’s 16 minutes that you won’t get back, but here you go: <a href="https://t.co/k5ha94MPol">pic.twitter.com/k5ha94MPol</a>
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1861512662225461517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Feeling even more defeated,” one supporter on the call said as Harris’ speech came to a close. “That was such a waste, why did they even call this?” another added. “Trump&#8217;s about to be a dictator. And our voices won&#8217;t matter,” another Harris supporter said after her speech concluded.
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I&#8217;m currently watching a livestream where Kamala Harris is set to thank her supporters.
Meanwhile they&#8217;re in shambles in the comment section, calling for a recount and for someone to &#8220;take down&#8221; Donald Trump. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/iF5AsTfADq">pic.twitter.com/iF5AsTfADq</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1861503683436982689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
“You could have saved my hope and sent a thank you text. Geez, you people beg me for my time, my money, my hope,” one of the most scathing comments read. “I am gobsmacked at the thoughtlessness, but I shouldn’t be so naive.”
The purpose of Harris’ speech, which did not include a fundraising pitch and recycled much of the same message from Democrat’s concession speech, was not readily apparent to many of her supporters.
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Harris vaguely stated that their movement was not over, but did not provide her supporters with any potential ways they could help or issue any calls to action, instead thanking her supporters who donated and &#8220;called in favors.&#8221;
&#8220;You called in favors, you said, &#8216;Hey, I showed up at your softball game, now I need you to show up at the campaign office,'&#8221; Harris said at one point during her speech.
The announcement of Harris’ speech, which lasted just ten minutes, apparently got certain supporters’ hopes up, however.
One commenter suggested that the failed candidate was using coded language and that Trump would actually be prevented from taking office somehow and that Harris had a trick up her sleeve that she could not yet reveal. “‘Outcome of this election is not what we wanted’ &#8211; notice she didn’t say ‘we lost’ &#8211; WE GET IT &#8211;  you can’t show your hand. That felon is going down.”
“Kamala I absolutely still see you taking office on 1/20,” one comment read, while another said in all caps, “WE CAN’T HAVE ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF TRUMP!!! TAKE HIM DOWN NOW!!!!!”
Numerous other Harris supporters called for a recount in the swing states, and some accused Trump of cheating with the help of Elon Musk.

Screenshot from Harris speech

Kamala Addresses Supporters, Says Nothing, Leaves Them Feeling Even More Deflated

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Top staffers from Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; failed White House bid disclosed how their subtle efforts to differentiate Harris from her boss, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, during the 2024 campaign were &#8220;never going to satisfy anybody&#8221; because voters wanted change.
In a post-mortem discussion on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOpWp02WVs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; podcast</a>, host Dan Pfeiffer, who was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, asked whether Harris could or should have done more to &#8220;distance herself&#8221; from the &#8220;unpopular, incumbent president.&#8221;
Pfeiffer noted how Harris appeared &#8220;personally uncomfortable&#8221; with the situation, &#8220;as evidenced&#8221; by an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in which the VP <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-tees-kamala-up-to-explain-how-shell-be-different-from-biden-and-she-still-fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed to provide a substantive answer</a> when pressed on how she would set herself apart from the Biden presidency.
Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon, who made the jump from chairing Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign to leading Harris&#8217; campaign after Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped out</a> in July, argued that voters did not know Harris very well and Harris&#8217; team only had a 107-day campaign to share the VP&#8217;s story.
&#8220;I do think that we really focused, from the get-go, on how she was different than everyone else — different than Joe Biden, different than [President-elect] Donald Trump,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley Dillon said before claiming that &#8220;at the end of the day, the choice was her versus Donald Trump.&#8221;
Harris &#8220;put her own stamp&#8221; on issues &#8220;in a deeper what than I think probably we got the kind of full breadth of coverage on it,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley Dillon said, adding the VP was part of the &#8220;progress&#8221; made under Biden and &#8220;it&#8217;s complicated when you&#8217;re asked questions in certain ways.&#8221;
Stephanie Cutter, a former Obama aide who became senior adviser for strategy messaging for Harris, said the campaign got the &#8220;Biden question&#8221; all the time, but they had to grapple with how Harris &#8220;felt that she was part of&#8221; the administration and had &#8220;tremendous loyalty&#8221; to Biden.
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&#8220;Unless we said something like, &#8216;Well I would have handled the border completely differently,&#8217; we were never going to satisfy anybody,&#8221; Cutter said. Instead, they focused on Harris being from a &#8220;different generation&#8221; and building &#8220;most of&#8221; her career outside of Washington, she added.
Cutter explained the Harris team sought to &#8220;tell a story and give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue,&#8221; but ultimately the data showed &#8220;too many people thought&#8221; Harris would be a &#8220;continuation — which on the economy was the incumbent killer.&#8221;

VP Kamala Harris

Kamala Staffers Reveal Why They Were ‘Never Going To Satisfy Anybody’ On The ‘Biden Question’

Fresh off losing the 2024 White House race to President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> is already getting the word out that she is not discounting another run for office, according to a new report.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/kamala-harris-advisers-options-open-00191393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday that Harris has privately conveyed to advisers and others to &#8220;keep her options open,&#8221; including for a potential 2026 campaign for governor in her home state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> or a presidential run in 2028.
&#8220;I am staying in the fight,&#8221; Harris has declared in phone calls, per the report.
Harris, a former California attorney general and U.S. senator, replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party&#8217;s nominee in the 2024 race for the White House after he dropped out earlier this year following a fumbling debate performance against Trump.
Trump ended up defeating Harris, coming out on top in all the battleground states and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-cabinet-picks-are-so-ideologically-diverse-it-makes-cnns-scott-jennings-feel-squeamish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making gains</a> among working-class voters, minority groups, and young people.
Last week, after losing the election, Harris <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123811/Inside-Kamala-Harris-luxury-Hawaii-vacation-rental-election.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled</a> with her husband, Doug Emhoff, to Hawaii for a vacation.
Citing insider sources, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/kamala-harris-advisers-options-open-00191393">POLITICO</a> noted that Harris will head back to Washington, D.C., and is expected to explore &#8220;possible paths forward&#8221; with family members over the winter holiday season.
&#8220;She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,&#8221; one former Harris campaign aide told the outlet. &#8220;The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.&#8221;
If Harris were to campaign for governor of California in 2026, she would be competing to replace <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a>, a fellow Democrat who is term-limited and is seen as yet another potential candidate for president in the 2028 contest.
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A number of Democrats have <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-09/california-governor-2026-candidates-newsom-atkins-kounalakis-thurmond-villaraigosa-yee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already begun</a> campaigns for California governor, including Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but polling has <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-13/poll-california-governor-race-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> Harris would have an edge if she ran.
Transgender-identifying celebrity <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/caitlyn-jenner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlyn Jenner</a> signaled another GOP bid is possible following a 2021 recall campaign. &#8220;If I ran [for governor], and it was ultimately against Harris, I would destroy her,&#8221; Jenner <a href="https://x.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1860986024928915514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Monday.

Kamala Mulls Run For California Governor, Another White House Bid After 2024 Defeat: Report

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Pro-life prisoners across the United States are eagerly awaiting the inauguration of Donald Trump, the future president, who has promised to investigate whether President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration &#8220;unjustly&#8221; persecuted pro-life activists, and to &#8220;get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.&#8221;
In the meantime, these activists are experiencing the grim realities of prison life. William Goodman is imprisoned in Danbury, Connecticut&#8217;s Federal Correctional Institution, where the Justice Department&#8217;s Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges landed him for engaging in a &#8220;conspiracy to blockade [a] reproductive health care clinic to prevent it from providing and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.&#8221;
Goodman had participated in what he and his fellow pro-life activists describe as a &#8220;rescue,&#8221; wherein they attempted to stop women from aborting their unborn babies by blocking the entrance to a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2020. As a response to the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade, the Justice Department sought out instances in which they could enforce the FACE Act — and Goodman was one of those who was targeted.
He&#8217;s currently serving a 27-month sentence in FCI Danbury, with a projected release date of July 2025.
Earlier this month, Goodman contacted The Daily Wire to share that he had spent the night in the emergency room. He had fallen out of the top bunk in his cell, which stands over 5 feet high without guard rails along the side, he shared — such a dramatic fall that one of his fellow inmates reportedly thought he had died. He said he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room, where he underwent CT scans and an MRI.
&#8220;When I fell, I landed on the top of my head with all of my force,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The loud noise woke up other men near by. I cracked my head open and lost a lot of blood. I knocked myself unconscious. But woke up on/off a couple times.&#8221;
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&#8220;I was very dizzy and throwing up blood,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had tingling sensations on my left side. I also needed stitches in my left temple in a couple places.&#8221;
Doctors reportedly told him he had minor skull fractures but no serious spinal injury. He had hoped he would be kept overnight, believing he had a severe concussion, but was sent back to the prison that evening.
&#8220;It has been chaotic and very uncomfortable here,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I suffer with severe dizziness and nausea, feeling sleepy but never able to sleep, I am having some flashbacks and my head is sore.&#8221;
He expressed gratitude to his fellow prisoners, including some men imprisoned for actions related to the January 6 Capitol riot, for taking care of him, saying that they helped move some of his things and picked up food for him since he was too dizzy to walk around and go to the &#8220;chow hall.&#8221; But for days, Goodman has been in bed with severe concussion symptoms.
He writes that he&#8217;s only been given Tylenol and anti-nausea medication, and worries that the prison should install guard rails on the bunks, &#8220;especially for geezers like me who have occasional vertigo.&#8221;
&#8220;Right now I could be worse,&#8221; he said in a message last week. &#8220;I just feel dizzy and abandoned and sore and sick. But it could be worse&#8230;mostly I stay in bed and drink water and take meds and try to sleep. But I can&#8217;t sleep. It is like a cruel torture. My left side of my head is like a constant migraine that seems to bang all night. Plus the loud prison noise and bright lights add to the turmoil. And the uncomfortable beds and no pillow&#8230;&#8221;
FCI Danbury declined to comment on Goodman&#8217;s condition to The Daily Wire. The prison has previously been referenced in the news when it housed Steven Bannon, who was released in late October ahead of the election, as well as several Jan. 6 prisoners. Bannon was imprisoned for contempt of Congress and for refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 House Committee, and his allies argue that the weaponized Biden Justice Department <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-trump-aide-steve-bannon-released-from-prison-1-week-before-election-day">pursued his imprisonment</a> out of political motivations.
Goodman has previously expressed thankfulness that he is able to speak to his fellow prisoners about the importance of protecting the unborn.
“Most cannot believe that we are in prison for defending innocent babies!” Goodman told The Daily Wire before the election, describing his fellow prisoners. “They think it’s crazy the federal government has come after us with such hostility&#8230;Many of the fellas have expressed their sadness over their wives or girlfriends killing their babies by abortion. Their stories are heartbreaking to hear.”
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defend-our-country-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-urge-americans-to-vote-against-kamala">has promised</a> to look into these cases of pro-life activists targeted by the Biden administration and to free those &#8220;unjustly victimized.&#8221;
“Paulette is one of many peaceful pro-lifers who Joe Biden has rounded up, sometimes with SWAT teams, and thrown them in jail,” Trump <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258089/trump-condemns-biden-doj-for-targeting-of-catholics-and-pro-life-activists">said in June</a> as he spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, referring to 75-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-doj-sends-75-year-old-woman-to-prison-for-2-years-for-violating-face-act">pro-life activist Paulette Harlow</a>.
“Many people are in jail over this. … We’re going to get that taken care of immediately — [on the] first day,&#8221; he added, promising to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime, including Paulette, so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.”
There are currently 11 pro-life activists imprisoned by the Biden Justice Department: Lauren Handy is serving a 57-month sentence in Tallahassee FCI, Herb Geraghty is serving a 27-month sentence in FDC Philadelphia, Heather Idoni will serve 24 months, and maybe more, from the Sanilac County Sheriff&#8217;s jail, Jean Marshal is serving 24 months in FCI Danbury with Goodman, Joan Bell is serving 27 months in FDC Philadelphia, Jonathan Darnel is serving 34 months in FCI Thomson, John Hinshaw is serving 21 months in FMC Devens, Calvin Zastrow is serving six months in in FCI Thomson, and Bevelyn Williams is serving 41 months in FCI Aliceville.
Steven LeFamine just finished serving 60 days in FCI Williamsburg, and Paulette Harlow, Coleman Boyd, Chester Gallagher, Paul Place, James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, Dennis Green, and Paul Vaughn are all serving home detention sentences.
Pro-life activists Eva Edl, Justin Phillips, and Joel Curry are awaiting sentencing.
On November 21, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-pauses-case-against-pro-lifers-until-trump-takes-office-new-sheriff-in-town">The Daily Wire reported</a>, that a federal judge paused the Justice Department&#8217;s case against seven of these pro-life activists related to their peaceful protest at an abortion clinic in Michigan: Edl, Gallagher, Idoni, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Cal Zastrow, and Eva Zastrow.
The judge, an Obama appointee, paused the case until Trump takes office, saying: “As further discussed on the record, the Court will conduct another status conference during the week of March 24, 2025, to receive a report from the Government trial team as to whether there has been any change in the Government’s position with respect to the continuation of this case and/or with respect to the positions expected to be advanced by the Defendants in their post-trial motions.&#8221;
Thomas More Society attorney Steve Crampton, who has represented many of the pro-lifers, previously told The Daily Wire that Leitman decided to stay the proceedings “in light of the election results and the likelihood that a new Department of Justice would alter its policies concerning prosecution of these FACE cases and in particular the use of the Conspiracy Against Rights statute against these defendants.”
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