Harris campaign officials explain what went wrong – and what Trump did right: report

Top Democrats successful Vice President Harris' run accidental their efforts to sway voters simply weren't capable successful the look of a wide dissatisfaction with the absorption of the state among the electorate.

Officials who worked connected the run offered a post-mortem to the Washington Post connected Thursday, saying that former President Trump besides took vantage of caller media opportunities that Harris near mostly untouched.

"There are definite things we’re looking astatine to recognize if we made the close call," run seat Jen O’Malley Dillon told the Post. "But fundamentally, determination wasn’t conscionable 1 assemblage of voters that would person impacted this, oregon 1 program. The headwinds were conscionable excessively large for america to overcome, particularly successful 107 days. But we came precise adjacent to what we anticipated, some successful presumption of turnout and successful presumption of support."

Campaign officials said their ain interior models going into Election Day had Harris with slim leads successful Wisconsin and Michigan, and virtually tied successful Pennsylvania, according to the Post. Their models had Trump starring successful Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was incapable to flooded a wide dissatisfaction with the existent administration, her unit say. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

"We are precise focused connected knowing what happened," O’Malley Dillon said. "We were laser-focused connected the battleground states. We knew it would beryllium a margin-of-error race, but with the enactment we had and the question we saw, we thought it was possible."

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Campaign officials, speaking connected information of anonymity, besides credited the Trump run and GOP successful wide for expanding their outreach to young men crossed the U.S.

"I deliberation what we person seen is that the folks connected the different side, connected Team Red, person been doing a batch of this enactment for years," the authoritative told the Post. "And there’s just, like, a batch of crushed for america to marque up successful … wherever young men successful peculiar are going to person their information, peculiarly young men who are explicitly not looking for governmental content."

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During the campaign, Trump and his moving mate, Sen. JD Vance, made regular appearances connected wide-reaching podcasts with large personalities, galore of them comedians similar Theo Von and Tim Dillon. That culminated with Trump and Vance having adjacent back-to-back appearances connected the largest podcast successful the world, the Joe Rogan Experience, conscionable earlier Election Day.

Former President Trump sat down for a three-hour interrogation with podcast elephantine Joe Rogan connected "The Joe Rogan Experience" conscionable earlier Election Day. (Screenshot/The Joe Rogan Experience)

Harris made an effort astatine akin forms of media with her quality connected the Call Her Daddy podcast, which appeals acold much to young women.

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"We are not present to archer you everything was perfect," O’Malley Dillon said. "We lost. But immoderate of the ascribing the nonaccomplishment to singular things, similar if we had conscionable done [an interrogation with] Joe Rogan, past that would person solved the occupation with young men. That is excessively simplistic and doesn’t lick thing and surely doesn’t lick the way forward."