A senior staffer on Kamala Harris’ campaign has admitted that he “knew something was wrong” in the weeks running up to the election, again underscoring that things in the Democratic camp were far from ‘joyful’.
Rob Flaherty, who also headed up digital outreach for the campaign explained in an interview to Semafor that it became apparent that the Democrats were quickly “losing hold of culture.”
The report notes that when she was anointed as the nominee, “the campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren’t obsessed with politics.”
In an effort to do this, Flaherty attempted to book her on sports shows and podcasts. But, in a telling trend, “the biggest personalities and shows politely turned them down,” the report notes.
“Sports and culture have sort of merged together, and as sports and culture became more publicly and sort of natively associated with this Trump-conservative set of values, it got more complicated for athletes to come out in favor of us,” Flaherty states.
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