Senior aides for President Donald Trump taunted Democrats as they reflected on the 2024 election, blaming President Joe Biden for not getting out of the race sooner.
Democrats and journalists argued that Biden was at fault for Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss and that if she only had more time, she could have beaten Trump.
‘One of the big lies we’ve seen spreading around from the Democrat campaign pros, eg David Plouffe, is that Kamala was somehow disadvantaged by having a shorter campaign,’ Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller wrote on X early Wednesday morning.
Plouffe, a former Obama advisor who joined the Harris campaign to boost it across the Finnish line went on the record in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper and journalist Alex Thompson to condemn Biden.
‘We got so screwed by Biden, as a party,’ Plouffe said, who described the Harris campaign as ‘a f***ing nightmare’ as they only had 107 days to campaign.
‘He totally fucked us,’ Plouffe added, blaming him for choosing to run for reelection and waiting three weeks until after his disastrous debate performance before dropping out the race.
But Miller argued that the shortened campaign helped Harris avoid scrutiny of her record.
‘This was actually her single biggest advantage — as if planned from the beginning — it’s what allowed the media to build a completely fictitious Kamala while sheltering her from all scrutiny,’ Miller wrote.
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks from a teleprompter in Washington DC
David Plouffe, chief advisor to the Kamala Harris campaign
Miller argued the media was ‘delusional’ with their ‘fawning coverage’ of her at the Democratic convention when they nominated her to replace Biden.
‘Remember the nonstop pro-Harris media psy op and reinvention?’ He asked. ‘Had she been forced to run a long campaign against Trump she would have topped out at 100 electoral votes.’
Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair agreed, recalling that Plouffe and the Harris campaign were confident in the campaign.
‘They were professing that she was ahead and winning all the way to the end,’ he wrote.
‘Remember their supposedly better ground game being worth 1-2 points? Remember ‘undecideds’ supposedly breaking for her 3-to-1 in the last week?’ Blair asked. ‘Her campaign advisers were the ones saying all this!’
Both Blair and Miller with traveling with President Trump in Qatar at the time of their posts, indicating they were following the new details of the 2024 election revealed by Tapper and Thompson’s new book Orignal Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller
White House deputy chief of staff James Blair, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump,
The book detailed discussions in Biden’s orbit about the president possibly using a wheelchair if he won reelection.
Former Biden aides joined the chorus of Democrats who blamed the former president for Trump’s second term.
‘[I]t was a disservice to the country and to the party for his family and advisers to allow him to run again,’ one aide told the authors for the book.
‘It was an abomination. He stole an election from the Democratic party; he stole it from the American people,’ another Democratic strategist said.
Other revelations from the book include Hollywood star George Clooney who was ‘shaken to his core’ after he met with Biden at a star-studded June 2024 Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles.
‘It was obvious to many standing there that the president did not know who George Clooney was,’ the authors write.
