Failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign chair is complaining that the only reason Americans believe that Harris did not do tough interviews is fake news driven by “the narrative.”
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon joined several other top campaign officials — David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter — in their first interview since President-elect Donald Trump destroyed their boss in the 2024 election in a landslide. This interview was supposed to include a post-mortem on the campaign’s failures — though they didn’t seem to find any, and instead focusing on blaming the American people for refusing to listen to the Harris campaign’s lies.
Dillon complained incessantly about the American people throughout the interview, claiming that the only reason that they believed Harris didn’t do tough interviews was because of the right-wing “narrative” — essentially arguing that Americans should not believe their eyes and ears, only the party line. The only interview that Harris did that was even somewhat confrontational was with Fox News’ Bret Baier, and every other interview was with friendly interviewers or even outright Democrat propagandists masquerading as journalists.
Kamala Harris just did her first (and only) unscripted, solo interview in the 55 days since she was installed as the nominee.
It's easy to see why she avoids interviews like the plague — she just can't help humiliating herself.
🧵 Here's what you missed:
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 14, 2024
“I do think a narrative, 107 days … two weeks talking about how she didn’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,” Dillon claimed.
Dillon then argued that Trump was not being held to the same standard as Harris — despite the fact that Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance did dozens of interviews and held dozens of rallies where they spoke directly to the American people about the issues effecting them, while Harris desperately avoided interviews and did very brief public appearances while refusing to give concrete answers to policy questions.
“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,” she said. “Being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything, or we were afraid to have interviews is completely bulls—t, 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.”
Harris campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon: "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… pic.twitter.com/sazkll4afT
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 26, 2024
Dillon also whined during the interview that Harris often was asked questions that were “processy,” apparently trying to say that these questions didn’t do enough to help voters get a better understanding of Harris or her policy plans — despite the fact that it is the candidate’s job to explain themselves to the American people, not the interviewer’s job.
