Pollster Nate Silver dismisses Harris campaign’s attempt to explain away loss: ‘Not some conspiracy’

Prominent predetermination expert Nate Silver appeared unconvinced aft Harris staffers tried to explicate distant their candidate's lack of interviews on the 2024 run trail.

During a Wednesday quality connected "Pod Save America," run seat Jen O'Malley Dillon claimed that President-elect Trump got "no sh—" for his tiny fig of accepted media interviews—while Vice President Kamala Harris received important criticism.

O'Malley Dillon would spell connected to telephone the critique a "double standard."

A transcript of the staffer's comments rapidly drew the attraction of Silver—who attempted to propulsion acold h2o connected the communicative pushed by the Harris campaign.

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Polling adept Nate Silver antecedently expressed interest astir Biden and Harris' quality to triumph the 2024 election.  (Getty Images)

"Harris didn't bash a solo web interrogation until precocious September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don't substance truthful much," helium said. "Then she did a clump toward the extremity of the race. But she was legit not doing a batch of accepted media. That was the campaign's choice, not immoderate conspiracy."

"The Harris run folks are the astir non-agentic radical I've encountered successful a presumption of comparable decision-making authority. They don't adjacent spot themselves arsenic victims truthful overmuch arsenic non-player characters with nary volition of their own," helium added.

A non-playable quality is simply a video crippled word that references characters not controllable by the player. Instead, they are directed by bundle programming. 

The Harris run aides person faced wide backlash from some sides of the aisles—with immoderate suggesting they took nary accountability successful the post-election podcast interview.

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New York Times newsman Astead Herndon and "Pod Save America" podcast co-host Jon Favreau launched barbs astatine each different implicit a caller podcast interrogation featuring Harris run unit stating wherefore Vice President Kamala Harris lost. (Bennett Raglin / Stringer | Slaven Vlasic / Stringer)

"Pod Save America" big Dan Pfeiffer spoke with O'Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter successful the Harris campaign's archetypal large interrogation since the vice president's nonaccomplishment to President-elect Trump. Online progressives sharply criticized the questioning and the antiaircraft posture by the guests.

The Harris aides complained astir media sum and repeatedly cited their clip crunch of conscionable implicit 100 days to enactment unneurotic a campaign, which was owed to President Biden going efficaciously unchallenged successful the Democratic superior and not dropping out until 3 weeks aft a disastrous June statement with Trump.

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CNN's Bakari Sellers, a Harris supporter, said during an interrogation connected the web connected Wednesday that the podcast interrogation was "disappointing astatine best," panning "their deficiency of self-awareness, their deficiency of self-reflection."

"It was reminiscent of a Kamala Harris interview: thing is really said. No 1 answers the question. No interrogation propulsion back," Tricia McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, wrote of the Harris run aides' interview.

Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.