Pollster Nate Silver says it's nonsense that failed Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was somehow a victim of a “double standard” when she refused to do any interviews at the beginning of her 2024 campaign.
Responding to claims a member of Harris' campaign made during an episode of Pod Save America this week, Silver wrote, “Harris didn't do a solo network interview until late September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don't matter so much. Then she did a bunch toward the end of the race. But she was legit not doing a lot of traditional media. That was the campaign's choice, not some conspiracy.”
"The Harris campaign folks are the most non-agentic people I've encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority,' Silver added. "They don't even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own."
Silver's post came after top members of Harris' campaign appeared on Pod Save America, during which it was said that Harris made more "traditional media" appearances than Trump, with Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon saying that Trump "got no sh*t for that."
O'Malley Dillon said that the campaign was "up against a narrative that we weren't doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews" that was "completely bullsh*t," a narrative that "took hold a little bit" and "gave us another thing we had to fight back for that Trump never had to worry about."
