Harris Campaign Managers Blame Election Loss on ‘Ferocious Headwinds,’ Limited Time

Campaign managers behind Kamala Harris’s presidential bid blamed her loss to President-elect Donald Trump on their limited time to promote the vice president as a “new generation of leadership.” The Harris–Waltz campaign team of Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quintin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter discussed where they fell short on the progressive podcast “Pod Save America,” hosted by Dan Pfeiffer, who was strategy and communications adviser to President Barack Obama. “In 107 days, what typically takes us a year and a half to two years in our presidential campaign, we were defining someone who was wholly undefined from the start, trying to remind people about the opponent and what life was like underneath him, and also take into account what the political environment was and the realities that we had to deal with,” Cutter said during the podcast published on Nov. 26....