Kamala Harris campaign aide says Democrats lost because they have trouble with battleground states

Harris run elder advisor David Plouffe said that Vice President Kamala Harris' nonaccomplishment to President-elect Donald Trump was owed to the electoral weaknesses successful the battleground states.

"It's ever worthy reminding people: it's truly hard for Democrats to triumph battleground states," Plouffe said successful a podcast posted Tuesday.

Plouffe appeared connected a podcast with Harris' erstwhile run seat Jen O'Malley and different Democratic Party strategists to sermon wherefore Harris failed to decision Trump. 

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Harris run elder advisor David Plouffe said that Vice President Kamala Harris' nonaccomplishment to President-elect Trump was owed to the electoral weaknesses successful the battleground states. (Getty Images)

Plouffe gave his investigation of the electoral concern successful each of the battleground states anterior to the election. 

"Given that we had a challenging governmental environment, the information that we got the contention to a dormant vigor was positive, but boy, it was dilatory moving." 

"Let’s look astatine Pennsylvania," helium said, opening a treatment of immoderate of the astir captious plaything states. "Twenty-five percent of the electorate is liberal, roughly. Thirty-four percent is conservative. By the way, successful astir battleground states, that blimpish fig is implicit 40. So successful each battleground state, there’s much conservatives than liberals. So, successful Pennsylvania, if exits are believed, Trump won conservatives 91-8, Harris won liberals 93-6. Moderates, Harris won 56-43, but you benignant of got to triumph 60% of them, right?" 

"For Democrats to triumph battleground states, it is simply a mendacious choice," Plouffe continued. "You privation to maximize your base, of course, and that was a spot wherever we spent an tremendous time, a batch of resources. That’s critical. And obviously, I deliberation successful Milwaukee, conscionable to usage that arsenic an example, we deed our turnout targets. Fell a small spot abbreviated successful Philly and Detroit, truthful that’s not good, that’s portion of the equation."

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"It was a dormant vigor race," Plouffe said of the contention betwixt Harris and Trump. "The governmental ambiance was beauteous brutal."  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Plouffe said that Democrats "need to dominate" the mean ballot successful bid to triumph nationalist elections oregon different they look difficulties arsenic a party.

"The mathematics conscionable doesn't f---ing work," Plouffe said.

"It was a dormant vigor race," Plouffe continued. "The governmental ambiance was beauteous brutal." 

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