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Kamala Harris raised more than $1.5 billion dollars in less than 107 days — a staggering, incomprehensible sum of money that signified an enormous confidence in her ability to deliver the presidency — and then she went on to lose all seven battleground states and the popular vote to a four times-indicted, twice-impeached, convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser. If losing that badly weren’t fuck-up enough, the campaign appears to have ceased operations tens of millions of dollars in debt.

The party’s financial outlook is so bleak that, on November 18, the Democratic...

The Kamala Harris election team sat down for an interview about her loss in the 2024 Presidential Election.

Specifically, senior advisors Stephanie Cutter and David Plouffe, Harris-Walz campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, and deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks were interviewed about some of what happened behind-the-scenes.

One issue that came up was why the current VP did not sit down for more popular podcasts. Donald Trump and Elon Musk both appeared on Joe Rogan‘s podcast in the weeks ahead of the election.

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“It was my understanding that you guys wanted to do a bunch of the larger, more popular, not specifically political podcasts,” they were asked on “Pod Save America.” “Never in time has there been a candidate better suited for a podcast than Kamala Harris on ‘Hot Ones.’”

Stephanie responded, “I think if I remember correctly, on ‘Hot Ones,’ they didn’t want to delve into politics…...

The post-mortems explaining Kamala Harris’ loss have been ongoing since election night, and after weeks of radio silence, the top brass of her failed presidential campaign have finally weighed in — to claim there’s little they could have done differently to defeat Donald Trump.

In an exclusive interview given to the podcast Pod Save America, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, senior adviser David Plouffe, deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, and senior adviser Stephanie Cutter sat down with host Dan Pfeiffer to answer questions about the strategic choices made by the campaign.

As the Kamala Harris campaign gets set for a big week ahead during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the candidate’s political team is also unveiling how they they’ll spend advertising dollars to get their message to voters ahead of early voting and Election Day in November.

As part of a $370 million buy between Sept. 3 and Nov. 5, about $170 million will go to traditional television advertising to reach mass audiences on broadcast and cable. “Voters in battleground states can expect to see Harris-Walz ads during high-viewership moments, including high-trafficked primetime programming like Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Abbott Elementary, Grey’s Anatomy, and Survivor, as well as sporting events like college and NFL football games, WNBA and NBA games, NHL games, and MLB games,” the campaign’s deputy campaign managers Quentin Fulks and Rob Flaherty wrote in a memo Aug. 17.

“By reserving early, the Harris-Walz campaign is securing inventory during high-viewership...

Kamala Harris has placed $370 million in TV and digital reservations from Labor Day to Election Day, seeking to secure lower rates than last-minute buys.

The $170 million in TV buys include spots in battleground states on shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Abbott Elementary, Survivor and Golden Bachelorette, as well as early evening mainstays like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Also on the list of buys are spots on college and NFL games, WNBA and NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball.

The campaign also said that a $200 million digital buy is the largest such outlay in presidential campaign history, reflecting the changes in consumer habits toward streaming.

The reservations include connected TV platforms, premium video and digital audio, including Hulu, Roku, YouTube, Paramount+, Spotify and Pandora. “We believe we are well on pace to spend more on digital persuasion media than any political organization ever,” Quentin Fulks and Rob Flaherty, deputy campaign managers,...

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign announced a whopping $90 million ad buy in battleground states for the rest of August.

The campaign said that the outlay includes running spots in markets like Marquette, Wi; Alpena, Mi; Toledo, Oh; Erie, Pa, and Youngstown, Oh, “where the Trump campaign is ceding the airwaves.” The ads will run on local broadcast and cable, including on shows like The Bachelorette, Big Brother, The Daily Show, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta and The Simpsons. Also included will be targeting on digital platforms and connected TV, as well as radio.

Quentin Fulks, deputy campaign manager, said in a statement that “it is precisely through efforts like this that we will break through a crowded media environment early and make clear the choice and stakes of this election for the voters who will decide it.”

The spots will touch on Harris’ personal story and background, as well as “her...

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that American presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for any “official acts” they take while in office. For President Joe Biden, this should be great news. Suddenly a host of previously unthinkable options have opened up to him: He could dispatch Seal Team 6 to Mar-a-Lago with orders to neutralize the “primary threat to freedom and democracy” in the United States. He could issue an edict that all digital or physical evidence of his debate performance last week be destroyed. Or he could just use this chilling partisan decision,...

President Joe Biden made the official announcement Tuesday that he is running for reelection.

The announcement came in a three-minute launch video.

“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are,” Biden says. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer. I know what I want the answer to be, and I think you do too. This is not a time to be complacent. That’s why I am running for reelection.”

The video, coming four years to the day when Biden announced his 2020 bid, opened with images of the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Biden then appears on screen and says, “Freedom — personal freedom is fundamental who we are as Americans. That’s been my work of the first term.