Top pollster Nate Silver tears into Kamala Harris aides complaining about a 'double standard'

Pollster Nate Silver tore into Vice President Kamala Harris' aides for complaining she was a unfortunate of a 'double standard' erstwhile refusing to bash media interviews during the opening weeks of her 2024 campaign. 

Silver reacted connected X to this week's Pod Save America interrogation with Harris' apical run advisers: Jen O’Malley Dillon, Stephanie Cutter, Quentin Fulks and David Plouffe. 

During the interview, O'Malley Dillon grumbled that present President-elect Donald Trump 'got nary s***' for doing little accepted media than Harris, but she 'got s***.' 

Cutter chimed successful saying, 'Oh yes. We got tons of s*** that she wasn't doing capable media.'

'Double standard,' O'Malley Dillon past commented. 

On X connected Wednesday, Silver pointed to a transcript of those comments and suggested that helium recovered them astonishing.

'Harris didn't bash a solo web interrogation until precocious September,' helium wrote. 'Which who cares, fine, the networks don't substance truthful much. 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,' Silver argued. 

Harris took implicit the apical of the Democratic summons connected July 21st, moving the shortest modern statesmanlike campaign. 

During the opening weeks of her campaign, she avoided media appearances - some accepted and non-traditional.

Trump had the payment of moving the longest run successful American history, archetypal announcing his intentions to spell aft the White House for a 3rd clip connected November 15, 2022 - conscionable a week aft the 2022 midterm elections. 

While Trump's galore podcast appearances tin beryllium credited with helping him triumph the White House back, helium besides appeared regularly connected Fox News. 

He besides participated successful a CNN municipality hallway successful May 2023 - and gave NBC's Meet the Press 1 of his archetypal interviews aft beating Harris earlier this month. 

'The Harris run folks are the astir non-agentic radical I've encountered successful a presumption of comparable decision-making authority,' Silver besides said. 

'They don't adjacent spot themselves arsenic victims truthful overmuch arsenic Non-Player Characters with nary volition of their own,' helium added. 

Silver's comments echoed others who person pushed that the Harris run isn't accepting capable blasted for the Democrat's devastating loss. 

CNN Democratic pundit Bakari Sellers called the podcast interrogation 'disappointing astatine best' blasting 'their deficiency of self-awareness, their deficiency of self-reflection.' 

Republican strategist Tricia McLaughlin said the Pod Save America interrogation was 'reminiscent of a Kamala Harris interview: thing is really said.' 

'No 1 answers the question. No interrogation propulsion back,' said McLaughlin, who worked for Vivek Ramaswamy's statesmanlike campaign. 

In a follow-up post, Silver said really thought the Pod Save America hosts' interviewing benignant was effective.  

Silver said 'one critique I don't hold with is that [Pod Save America] went excessively brushed connected them.'

'[S]ometimes being leff adversarial and giving interrogation subjects much enactment really makes them look worse,' the apical pollster argued.