A top aide to Vice President Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign has revealed that internal polls never showed her defeating President-elect Donald Trump, but this information was not shared with those collecting high-dollar donations for her bid.
Lindy Li, a DNC National Finance Committee member and Harris campaign fundraiser, shared her concerns about the campaign’s internal polling numbers with Fox News Digital. “That’s not what we were told. We were told definitely that she had a shot at winning – it wasn’t even a shot. I was even told that Pennsylvania was looking good, that we would win 3-4 swing states,” she said.
Meanwhile, Harris senior adviser David Plouffe presented a different analysis of the vice president’s chances on a podcast, stating that the campaign did not get the breaks they needed on Election Day. “We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said.
The apparent discrepancy between internal polling numbers and the messages conveyed to donors has raised concerns about transparency and honesty within the campaign. Li, who has been involved in politics for over a decade, described this kind of lack of transparency as “absolutely not normal” and stated that it would be difficult to regain the trust of donors.
The loss of the campaign was attributed to electoral weaknesses in battleground states, with Plouffe acknowledging that the campaign was behind in the polls and only managed to catch up by the end of the campaign. The campaign’s internal polling reportedly showed that Harris trailed behind Trump, contrary to public polls that showed her leading.
