david plouffe is on deck. we have lots to get to. to. with vaseline, hydrated skin is just the beginning. level up to even toned, radiant skin. new vaseline radiant x body lotion with 1% niacinamide. level up to even toned skin. >>> while the new shock results iowa poll from pollster ann selzer has been blowing up newsfeeds and for good reason, it's one poll and we should put it in the context of what's going on broadly in the polling as we get into the final polling before election day including the big new poll from nbc news. the top line is it's a tie, 49 for harris and 49 for trump. even as he abc poll shows a national deadlock, there's a couple internal numbers that the pro-harris side is latching onto. black voters in the abc poll support harris by a margin of 87% to 9%. in context, that's a three-point larger margin with black voters than biden won in 2020. even so much recent conversation about this campaign centered on here supposedly having a slipping standing with black voters and the abc poll she's doing better with black vot

the hole that david plouffe tweeted about before he deleted his account on x.lso going to be interesting to hear how president biden frames the next few months because when he dropped out in july he said he still had a lot of work he wanted to do over the next -- until the end of his term. now you have donald trump and his team teeing up executive actions they'll take on day one. the biden team, while promising a transition of power, a smooth transition of power, they have to figure out how to trump-proof all of the stuff that joe biden has done over the last few years. it will be a balancing act, a see-saw where he will say we'll do whatever we can do to help donald trump but also we have the powers of the presidency right now. we control the oval office until january and so it will be very interesting to hear how he does that and i wish that we knew more and that we could share more ahead of time. we didn't get a preview of the remarks today. >> harris: as you are talking about that, the public has been given a little touch in the last few days of the campaig

of course there is one problem with david plouffe being hospital now.ook what he said in october about the campaign and the polling. >> i think our data is consistent with the public data is this is a close race in seven states. obviously a campaign like ours has a lot of sophisticated days that every day. as. we think we have an advantage. at one point he wasn't telling the truth. you make the call at home. how can anyone ever trust these people again for the next democratic i guess nominee. aspirations about running in 2028. she is off to extremely rough start. one dnc finance committee member said she was stunned by kamala's self-congratulatory actions after the dumpster fire, which was her campaign, and one huge dem mega donor, john morgan said this should be the end for her politically. >> i think this disqualifies her forever, forever. if you can't run a campaign, you can't run america. if you cannot be trusted with the money. >> brian: remember, she imploded before she got to one single caucus or primary back in 2020. money was out of control. an

cnn battleground polling john king breaks it down we're joined by senior harris campaign adviser david plouffe and donie o'sullivan reports on the step by step plans that influential trump supporters are making to overturn the election. if trump loses again. good evening. thanks for joining us for a second straight day, the two presidential campaigns are sharing geography. the vice president tonight about to speak in reno, nevada, and after that in las vegas, where jennifer lopez will be joining her on stage. lopez, just one of many well-known artists of puerto rican heritage who are rallying behind harris now, especially after one of the speakers at trump's rally in new york on sunday called puerto rico a floating island of garbage. her reno event is expected to begin shortly. the former president is in henderson, nevada, and has an event with tucker carlson later tonight in glendale, arizona. he was also in new mexico today, where he falsely suggested that he won the state twice. in fact, he lost by eight points in 2016 and double digits in 2020. but we're starting off with what he said last

cnn battleground polling john king breaks it down we're joined by senior harris campaign adviser david plouffe and donie o'sullivan reports on the step by step plans that influential trump supporters are making to overturn the election. if trump loses again. good evening. thanks for joining us for a second straight day, the two presidential campaigns are sharing geography. the vice president tonight about to speak in reno, nevada, and after that in las vegas, where jennifer lopez will be joining her on stage. lopez, just one of many well-known artists of puerto rican heritage who are rallying behind harris now, especially after one of the speakers at trump's rally in new york on sunday called puerto rico a floating island of garbage. her reno event is expected to begin shortly. the former president is in henderson, nevada, and has an event with tucker carlson later tonight in glendale, arizona. he was also in new mexico today, where he falsely suggested that he won the state twice in fact, he lost by eight points in 2016 and double digits in 2020. but we're starting off with what he said last

david plouffe there saying that harris essentially started out behind. meaning because of president joe biden, he was her senior adviser. why don't you think the campaign advised harris to immediately draw a bigger and large distinction between her and president biden yeah, i have to just be straightforward. >> i think that was a mistake. >> um, i think i appreciate kamala harris's loyalty to joe biden, and i think up through, say, the convention, it was important to celebrate and appreciate his achievements. but after that, it was time to draw some distinction. it reminded me, unfortunately, of what hubert humphrey did with lbj in 1968, where he he just wouldn't separate enough on the vietnam war to reach a lot of people who would have been his voters. so in the end, uh, you know, that interview on the view was particularly unfortunately, where kamala harris couldn't name something she would do different than biden and the people of this country sadly, you know, have become disenchanted with biden no matter how many successes. so this is going to be i t

voters and he's been talking to over the last year joining us now is harris campaign senior advisor david plouffe, who we should mention ran former prison obama's 2008 campaign. so david, there you seen new poll numbers georgia, north carolina. i mean, at this point or do you do care about i mean, are you paying attention to these polls well, i try not to pay too much attention. >> any poll that's not our own anderson but i think our data is consistent with what the public date is. i think what probably the trump date is, which is his close race in seven thanks i would just point something out on one of the reasons that we're optimistic is let's say your poll, our poll we think are racist. 48474747 that's not 100% of the vote so the question is the people who have not yet decide who to vote for, who are actually going to vote. and our senses in the last week, the people who've made up their mind and last week, were doing quite well with and we like the people who've yet to make a decision in terms of who, who they look like from a data perspective and what they saw hope report in terms of who the

put bluntly, david plouffe, who was, of course, a senior adviser to her, said there was a price to be paid for the sht mpaign. kate certainly much more to learn from the harris campaign's team postmortem of what went wrong but certainly at first blush at how at least they are defining it for the first go around. kate. >> sunlen good to see you. thank you so much, john. >> all right. this morning, president-elect trump's promise to impose 25% tariffs on goods from mexico and canada is sparking concern across many u.s. industries. one of them, maybe chief among them, is the auto industry. cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa yurkovich is here. and look this has an impact on the auto industry. like every which way. yeah. >> and us as consumers of buyers of vehicles, the u.s. imports the majority of car parts and cars from mexico. and we do have the big three u.s. automakers. but so much of the cars that are made are made with foreign parts, including from china as well. and canada and mexico. and we import cars from mexico directly just to give people a sense, there are the ca

. >> reporter: senior harris adviser david plouffe issued this barb this afternoon.out of a deep hole, but not enough. a devastating loss. in a memo to the entire harris team, campaign chairs jen o'malley dillon said the work of protecting america from the impacts of a trump presidency starts now. >> while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. [applause] >> reporter: but tonight, there are calls for the democratic party itself to do some soul-searching after this loss. vermont senator bernie sanders writing "it is no great surprise that a party that has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them." norah. top issue for voters. donald trump n top issue for voters. nancy cordes, thank you. donald trump is not only getting back the keys to the white house. he will begin a second term and white office with his party controlling the senate and likely the lower chamber domain chamber. the house of representatives leans republican. cbs's caitlin huey burns has more on trump's return to washingt

you talk about david plouffe. there were some saying he was trying to run kamala harris as a 2024 barack obama. >> yeah. his name has come up a lot in the aftermath of what went wrong. certainly people have their criticism of him inside and outside the campaign. i think if we back up and think about the genesis of this campaign. when biden was still on the ticket, when he announced he was running, it was really difficult to staff the senior roles. people didn't want to work for joe biden and they didn't want to move to wilmington. so therefore in key e pele years to junior to full ill i will. wasn't at the scale it needed to be to incorporate the enthusiasm and the inflow of cash and volunteers that harris brought when she switched the ticket. so then she didn't want these staffing stories that plagued her in the first two years of office as vice president, so she brought in this new advisers like plouffe, like some other folks. but obviously, people had a lot of criticism for the way they planned the strategies a

david plouffe, still riding the glory on obama? come on.well, depression. >> so we lost and that really sucks. and we came really close and obviously we believe that we could pull this off. and that is something we all have to live with. >> laura: well, there is one more stage of grief. it's kind of -- you hear a little acceptance there but they are not really there yet and they likely never will be. then their whole world chances if they really think about why they lost. it's the agenda, their issues, the policies. they still think kamala ran a perfect campaign. so much in their reputation. know it all geniuses in politics. they obnoxiously dismissed any notion that the american people preferred trump's policies, it wasn't just her personality. they like trump's policy. so they just gleefully smeared half america, half of america as rotten racist, all the rest. and, of course, they were all lying? i think they knew they were lying when they said it. so, acceptance would actually mean one thing. being capped into irrelevance. incoming borde

the night before the campaign i had a conversation with david plouff.the polls opening hours after this conversation and i wanted to play this part for you. >> we are reviewing all of the early vote data and election day and how insiders are breaking. we have a credible pathway to all seven states tomorrow night to go in kamala harris column, we believe they will all be close. >> you think you can win all seven? >> yes. >> as i said, congressman, when i relisten to it i hear the pause before "yes." it was delivered with conviction, harris lost five swing states so far, trailing in the last two that cnn has not yet called. i am just curious how you see it, campaign in a bubble? did they have bad data? you know, this was not just a little miss. it was a magnificent miss. it is everywhere. >> reporter: well, it was close everywhere. rather than winning seven in a close contest it looks like we may have lost all seven in a close contest. when you get into these things. i have studied politics all of my life and practiced it for the same amount of time. i ca

. >> jesse: one of kamala's top guys, david plouffe, hate that name, said they did an amazing job considering dig themselves out of a deep hole. that hole is joe's legacy. a biden world source said plouffe is a sanctimonyius ass. another said i find this so productive joe biden is the president of the united states and won without you. he successfully beat donald trump, something he never did. it's an allout civil war between kamala and biden. >> one of the reasons a lot of democrats are angry with joe biden tonight because they feel that the decision to run again when he was 80 years old was very reckless and a very risky decision, a risky gamble that he lost. >> jesse: now the media's getting in on the infighting t same reason biden told us he's healthy as a horse say he should have dropped out years ago. usa today says blame biden's ego for trump's win and another paper says biden's old enough to know better. trump's win is on him. but if they keep blaming the ghost of joe biden they're never going to learn for their mistakes they're the ones that covered up for biden's brain and for examp

i'm a little shocked that david plouffe would be a part of an operation who ran two successful campaigns for president obama and everybody with all their experience. and she had no message. and she couldn't figure out where to separate herself from joe biden. 107 days. there is disadvantage. you are not scarred. you don't have any democrats beating you up. and the hope everyone is union need find. that money in my view, emily was a lot against trump. she just happened to be a recipient of it. >> emily: accountability for what occurred. puppet at the democratic party. here, check a couple boxes so we will throw you up on this campaign as a vice president. she certainly hasn't proved anything. we talk about the power of money. well, where is her receipts for the 2.5 million celebrities that mean nothing to the american people care about the american people. we don't care what oprah tells us. >> brian: evidently al sharpton? trouble at msnbc. they say the standards of a talk show host getting $500,000 from a campaign to interview the candidate. i wonder how that interview is going to go. >>

david plouffe said that it was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with kamala harris and the amazingthe field for their country. we dug out of a deep hole. not enough. devastating loss. thank you for being in the arena. jackui heinrich said that obama staffers are trying to pin blame on biden for harris's loss. one called him a sanctimonious a-word and find it unproper dictive. joe biden is the president of the united states and won without you. he successfully beat donald trump, something he never did. so this i guess is to be expected a little bit, but tell us about the scope and scale of it. >> that's the key question, dana. the scope and scale will escalate if people go more on the record with those biting harsh comments, right? you read the initial plouffe statement and it is not that over the top. it is congratulating his team. someone in biden world and jackui has a live wire took offense at that. i'll look to see how many recriminations there are going forward and how public they are. underneath the surface, there is a lot of frustration on both sides. i think one thing overl

david plouffe comes out and says look i'm proud of what we did. left in too deep a hole to dig out. >> lawrence: incredible. a shot at biden immediately. >> brian: you had this over and over again. our agenda was not popular. bernie sanders we left the working class. >> ainsley: have you seen lydia, the lady who worked for her. i don't know her last name. she was on some of the shows yesterday i was proud for being honest. she was so honest about this is what we did wrong. this is what we should have done better. sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you. >> brian: ritchie torres in new york took aim at his own party. the defeat simply in denial. this guy in new york is pro-israel in middle of all the protests around him. >> lawrence: one thing they have to evaluate as well is it wasn't just a candidate problem. it's a message problem. they are not speaking to every single multi-cultural temperature group that they once had rejected them. was i getting numbers of exit polling in texas. about 34% of black males voting for donald trump. this is astronom

obama campaign manager david plouffe posted we dug out of a deep hole but not enough.oss. reports he shut down his x account. former democratic presidential candidate andrew yang, the biggest onus of this loss is on president biden. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre faced tough questions. >> president biden believes that he made the right decision when he decided to step aside and immediately endorsed the vice president and you saw the party support her and he believed it was the right thing for the american people. he put himself aside. >> does he have any regrets? >> the president understands he will respect the will of the people. he believes he made the right decision when he stepped aside, decided he wasn't going to run. we can't -- we can't rewrite history. >> harris: 50 years president biden was there for democrats, on their side, ran into his 80s and then all this. biden officials are hitting back. one aide says there is no singular reason why we lost. a big reason is because the obama advisors publicly encouraged democratic infighting to push joe

[laughter] the the revered campaign consultant david plouffe who was brought in to help get harris acrossh line has deleted his account on x after posting is?ing? something, in part, we dug out of a deep hole but not enough. a devastating loss, thanks for being in the arena, all of you. the sentiment from harris loyalists has shifted from joe biden's legacy as a selfless patriot is cemented because he stepped aside to let harris beat trump, two, joe biden was so unpopular, his vp if was doomed from the get go. there's an important politico that has this, quote, we ran the best campaign we could considering joe joe biden was president. joe biden is the singular reason kamala harris and democrats lost tonight. exit polls don't reflect that joe biden was the singular reason, and some democrats when did win this week are imploring their democratic colleagues to drop the bitterness quickly or else. >> one thing i don't think is constructive is to get into the blame game, blaming certain individuals for things that could have been done or should have been done or would have been done. none of t

the revered democratic campaign consultant david plouffe brought in to help harris seal the deal when she took over for joe biden has deleted his account on x after appearing to blame joe biden for harris's loss on tuesday and for setting the vice president up to fail. part of what he wrote is we dug out of a deep hole but not enough. devastating loss. thanks for being in the arena all of you. the sentiment with that and everything else from harris loyalists has shifted from joe biden's legacy as a selfless patriot is cemented. he stepped aside to let harris beat trump. two,unpopular his v.p. was doomed from thet c could considering joe biden was president grumbled one harris aidented anonymity to speak. joe biden is the singular reason kamala harris and democrats lost tonight. exit polls don't reflect that joe biden was the singular reason that harris lost and some democrats who won this week are imploring their colleagues to drop the bitterness quickly or else. >> one thing i don't think is constructive is to get into the blame game blaming certain individuals for things that could

with you there were people like david axelrod that i think are going to do legitimate evaluation, david plouffelegitimate evaluation. i think these people are totally deattached and i question whether they should stay in america. >> ainsley: they don't know what middle america is like. middle america does have religion. they like god. they like it take th their chiln to church on sundays it teaches right from wrong. >> lawrence: brian talking about all the talking points put out before the election. i hope it gives us some type of comfort. i was worried, honestly, the mainstream media -- they were so aggressive with the celebrities and i mean it seemed like -- i mean, ainsley, you go through every day the lies that were told, national abortion bans, project whatever. 2025. just over and over and over. but the american people, they are smarter. and they rejected all the talking points. >> ainsley: what does that tell you? you make a good point, think about all the channels, abc, nbc, cbs, msnbc, cnn, all pro-kamala. all of those channels, they had an opportunity. those were free advertisements f

after that debate to get out of the race, you know, we certainly saw some of that in a tweet from david plouffe we dug into it. we were dug into a deep hole, and we were able to get out, but it wasn't enough. that tweet was then deleted, but i think it really speaks to the frustration we're hearing within this party, you know, we're going to see biden meet with trump next week, and there will certainly be -- the two teams will be working together, it sounds like on the transition, but there's just an enormous amount of consternation in the party about what happened. >> plouffe deleted his entire twitter/x even. let's dive into more. there's a lot of behind-the-scenes fingerpointing that's breaking out among democrats second-guessing the vice president's messaging, you know, second-guessing the president's decisions and it seems like biden himself catching a lot of the blame. some of his aides have said to me that a difference of a couple of weeks, if he had bowed out, that wouldn't really have mattered. the real issue would have been had he stepped aside let's say after the 2022 midterms when h

i saw david plouffe put out a tweet a couple of days ago where he talked about in the late break perse actually gotten some good news. i'm just curious if they have actually taken you guys aside and said, okay, this is what with our inside polling shows. >> reporter: yeah, they have. they've done a couple of oppress if calls just to sort ever of walk through the data that they're seeing at the the end. they're saying that they're a doing well with women, they're saying they're doing well with voters that would traditionally be part of trump's camp. they don't get into sort of the guts of their internals or give us any numbers, but they're certainly conveying a lot of confidence and hoping that that continues over the next couple of days. we would like to get a look at the internals though because everyone you talk to on the ground, i mean, it's sort of a toss-up in terms of who people think might end up winning these swing states. brian: we just keep thinking independents and where are they breaking late. the harris people think they're breaking to her, but i don't see the evidence of

david plouffe came out and said i'm very proud of the campaign we run. we were in too deep of hole. the blowback got so thick he delighted his x account. >> steve: sanders on msnbc striking back and says you guys didn't even ask joe biden to do go to his hometown to campaign in c scranton. no wonder why you lost. the back and forth is going back between three different camps right now. >> ainsley: they are really depressed. you have all these colleges saying we are going to cancel class. barnard college. harvard professors canceling classes because students feel blue about the trump win. the guardian is helping therapy to staffers after trump's upsetting win. liberal women are cutting off their hair. have you seen all of this on social media and going on sex strike? saying they hate men. they are never dating men again. >> brian: how do you know if you are on a sex strike? carry around a sign? don't approach? [laughter] for all we know we are all on a sex strike. we don't even know. >> ainsley: yesterday, things got heated at the white house. >> brian: can i say this? when kamala ha

i think we should listen to david plouffe.y and parachuted in when kamala harris became the nominee. this is what he says about today. >> it's very important that we have multiple pathways to 270. just a couple hours ago reviewing all the early vote data, we're projecting for election day, how we think undecideds are breaking we have a credible path with all seven states but believe they will all be close. >> you think you could win all seven? >> yes. >> dana: simple answer, yes. >> bill: what will he say? >> no, we cannot win any of the seven. listen, she can win all seven. we've done this, the whole one point. she could win six of the seven if it shifted one point. but one point in the polls and there is a sweep. one point the other way there is a sweep of seven. listen, i think that there are a lot of iterations and we'll know a lot early. i think georgia and north carolina are going to tell us a lot. michigan is a fast state. we'll get a piece of the midwest picture. if it tracks what we're seeing as far as all of the vote

cnn battleground polling john king breaks it down we're joined by senior harris campaign adviser david plouffe donie o'sullivan reports on the step by step plans that influential trump supporters are making to

and i you know, i've heard david plouffe saying this, that the undecideds in the last week are breaking their way by double digits. jon favreau good to see you. thanks so much for joining. appreciate it. >> thanks, jake. >> warnings today that even more disinformation is likely to appear in these final days of the election. coming up next, i'll ask the man who used to be in charge of fighting off some of these efforts about what you should be on the lookout for it all comes down to this. we can now make a major projection the way only cnn can bring it to you. election night in america. special coverage begins tuesday, november 5th at 4:00 on cnn. you want to support your healthy blood pressure and help maintain your energy, your stamina, and your heart health. that's why super beats from human does the hard part for you. super beats plant based supplements for blood pressure support are formulated with unique ingredients that help support energy and help support heart health. it's a nature centered, scientifically developed approach to cardiovascular support start your cardiovascular he

just listen to harris senior adviser and former obama campaign manager, david plouffe. it was a dead heat race, but, you know, at the end of the day, you know, the political atmosphere was pretty brutal, given that we had a challenging political environment. the fact that we got the race to a dead heat was positive. so i think where kamala harris campaigned, we were able to keep the tide down a little bit, margin of error, race where we inherited a deficit. we got it to even. what is he talking about? a dead heat got it to even trump won all seven swing states. all seven of them. he won the popular vote outright. the first republican to do that in 20 years. trump also got more votes in raw vote total than any republican nominee in history in all 50 states, including d.c. moved closer to the right. but the race was close. really, that's what they're going with. i mean, in hindsight, the race was never in doubt because kamala harris refused to break away from joe biden during the campaign. i remember this nbc told us that her reticence to break from biden was because, acc

i'm sure you've seen david plouffe talking about this. the harris campaign has put it out there to all the reporters today that what they're seeing from the late breakers. so people are deciding in the last week is a double digit surge for kamala's campaign. and people are saying that the madison square garden rally was the last straw. and when you have a lineup that includes dana white, hulk hogan, elon musk, rfk jr and tony hinchcliffe with, you know, the clincher there that has erupted, the puerto rican community and the latino community writ large against the trump campaign, saying, i get it. he's a comedian, right? i don't blame tony hinchcliffe for that. he has a right to say it. i don't think it was the right venue for it. if you want your candidate to win the election, but for them to take that and say, this is what people that he showcases thinks about, people like us, you watch bad bunny's videos about it. i'm actually surprised by the level of explosiveness that this has caused. you can't then sit there and defend this or say i

. >> david plouffe has said the headwinds. i mean, the economic headwinds were pretty strong.t was tough. >> yeah. i mean look, i think there were a combination of things and look, i'll be honest, as much as i love joe biden, i think kamala actually saved us from having a blowout, frankly. i mean, i think she really the energy and the enthusiasm that she brought to the ticket. but again, i think it's more complicated. it's not just about having our own joe rogan. it's about understanding what trump did. was he understood, like in the manosphere that we've talked about. he understood. they understood who his voters were, where they were, what message they needed to hear and what channel they needed to hear it in and we just didn't do as good a job on that. i mean, you know, to some degree, you know, think about it. in the south, where people were voting for candidates who were uh, against segregation and they lost for a long time. didn't mean that they were voting the wrong way. right? it just means we lost. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. the important thing is, what ca

david fluff must have -- david plouffe if with the harris campaign suggested that just yesterday.that donald trump runs the table with these states and builds on a big, landslide electoral inwin. we don't know where the popular vote is going to finish out, but we do know that he will be going back to the white house with and with him, brit hume, will be a lot of changes because he will have been there once and know what he wants to do. >> he often accounts for the fact that he had so much turn over by the fact that he didn't know washington and he was new to this realm that he had come to win presidency in. and he promises in that now he knows. new he knows whom he wants to hire, the kind of people he wants around him. a lot of people are saying that means a lot of experienced people will be ruled out, season and maybe they will. it's going to be interesting to see the kind of people he reaches out for in the days and weeks ahead as he builds his administration. bret: kayleigh mcenany, you've been a part of the last administration, you've seen all -- you can see the joy on all the

i mean, david plouffe was behind the concert that we saw thinking that would draw in kind of uninformeders. it bombed. it was a total flameout. now. well, again, the consultants always make out like bandits. it doesn't matter if they win or lose. it's not like a basketball team. the coach fails. the coach is fired. but in this case, you can manage a campaign, you can buy all these ads, you can lose and you can get hired in 2028. all right, raymond, thank you very much. and you have a great, great weekend. all right. this is a sad part of the show because, you know, i hate goodbyes. i hate saying goodbye to anybody. and this isn't really goodbye, but it's because it's a close friend. elisa cipollone. o'toole has been with this program from day one. she in the last seven years. she also had four beautiful children. she's been an absolute delight. i've known her since she was. i think 11 years old, and to see her grow up as a young woman, as a talent, as a professional, as a mother and as an amazing friend, incredibly. oh, that's us in paris. wasn't that fun? it was like five in the mornin

and briefly, tia, i do want to just play what david plouffe as well as quentin folks had to say aboutans ad right, that we've spent a lot of time talking about it, that basically just candidly says kamala harris is for gay them. donald trump is for you. a very simple message. here's what they had to say about that obviously, it was a very effective ad at the end. >> i ultimately don't believe that it was about the issue of trans. i think that it made her seem out of touch. um and it was sort of a pseudo economic ad underneath it. >> at the end of the day, we were spending a lot of time with voters in these battleground states, both quantitatively and quantitatively. >> and this trans ad was not driving vote so it makes me wonder if they were asking about trans as the issue but that what quentin folks was describing there was really what was going on that, that it was much bigger than just that issue. >> and also quentin made the point that the ads were really targeting men, mainly black and latino men so it kind of gets at some of the kind of social divisions cultural war divisions, a

for they them trump is for you here was how quentin foulkes, who was on the campaign as well as david plouffe, explained that in this postmortem. let's watch obviously it was a very effective ad at the end. >> i ultimately don't believe that it was about the issue of trans. i think that it made her seem out of touch. um, and it was sort of a pseudo economic ad underneath it. >> at the end of the day, we were spending a lot of time with voters in these battleground states both quantitatively and quantitatively. and this trans ad was not driving vote so he says the ad is not driving votes but when you listen to what quentin said there, it's i mean, i'm sure that they were testing the trans issue in a straightforward way. >> but if the ads about way more than that, it doesn't necessarily line up well. >> and it's amazing how often an election, it's like 1 or 2 things that are we lost because of that, but go back to the virginia governor's race in 2021. the issues in that race were inflation, trans kids in sports and immigration even in virginia, was an issue that completely prefigured this elect

david plouffe said yesterday that she could win all seven battleground states and said that she could maybe if it turned she could win six of seven, but he said seven of seven just the other day. >> he said. there was a confidence from him. and democrats abound that there was -- bret: all right. martha: all the polling said it could go either way. bret: we've got to hit a break real quick. martha: a lot of votes to count still and we are covering all of them for us. our special coverage continues. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble with your weight? same. discover the power of wegovy®. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and obesity. don't use wegovy® with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines, or in children under 12. don't take if you or your family had mtc, men 2, or if allergic to it. tell your prescrib

obama's campaign manager, david plouff, who took the reins of the harris campaign, has already gone into hiding. he deleted his twitter account today, and democrats even have their knives out for george clooney, who pulled the trigger in the new york times. one saying, someone bring me george clooney. we need to have a talk. people are blaming biden. other people are blaming barack. some people are blaming harris. this is the top democrat in philly saying the campaign was just sloppy. the national campaign nothing. zero. they had no respect. they had no coordination. they didn't. they didn't talk. i never even had a conversation with the lady. first time ever. they didn't even do the right thing. as far as giving us the resources that we need. and they want to blame us and now i understand some of their camp is blaming joe biden. can you imagine blaming joe biden for her loss? she lost. he didn't lose. the harris team is firing back. if there's any immediate takeaway from philadelphia's turnout this cycle, it's that chairman brady's decades long practice of fleecing campaigns for money t

. >> that's from david plouffe, senior advisor to the harris presidential run.rocious headwinds and the breakneck pace of her abbreviated run mortally wounded her bid to shatter the glass ceiling i just want to again, it can sound like making excuses this political environment sucked okay, we were dealing with ferocious headwinds, and i think people's instinct was to give the republicans and even donald trump another chance. >> so we had a complicated puzzle to put together here in terms of the voters and it was going to take a little bit more independent republicans than we saw in 20, maybe a more republican, uh, voters for us, it was going to take voters saying, even though i judge trump's first term favorably i'm more concerned about him. this time. >> catherine, i want to start with you, because this has been a long conversation the last couple of weeks. but we haven't had the campaign itself weigh in now that it has. were you hearing things that like, made sense, go against what everyone else has been talking about in those sort of democratic circles? >> i

neighbors even if they won't be here to vote in the next election meantime, the harris senior adviser, david plouffe, was talking to a podcast, pod save america for the first time, talking about what he believed went wrong. >> listen, i think when kamala harris became the nominee, she was behind. we kind of you know, climbed back um, and even post-debate, you know, we still had ourselves down, you know, in the battleground states, but very close, i think, where kamala harris campaigned we were able to keep the tide down a little bit, but it ended up being a pretty strong, you know, tailwind for donald trump. >> you know, there's a lot of things that harris team did wrong here that we can go back and look. but in your travels across the country, what do you think really stuck out? what was the glaring deficiency with the harris campaign did not convince people that she understood the toll, the cost of living had taken on them, especially after covid. >> you had the covid punch then the hangover of cost of living and she didn't convince people that she would be different from joe biden, that she under

david plouffe said he thought the most effective trump ad was on biden nomics.e said that was really an anchor and a weight on the vice president. but interesting many, many questions about how she responded or didn't respond to the trans ad that was one of the trump campaign's most successful from their view. um um, spots that they put out and they said that they had, uh, a few ads that they devised and they ran them through focus groups, but they didn't think that they responded well enough. so they didn't use them because it was in the vice president's own words. that is a decision that was made there's still a lot of uncertainty about why this was made. was it the right call or not? as you know, some senate candidates did respond like sherrod brown and others, just to sort of push back on this. so look, this did not answer a lot of the questions, but the bottom line there, right? it was a short campaign, but was it a winnable one with donald trump as the opponent? >> i mean, look, it was a close race. things could have made a difference on the margins even t

cnn battleground polling john king breaks it down we're joined by senior harris campaign adviser david plouffe donie o'sullivan reports on the step by san

you're talking about turning the page, on monday night david plouffe, senior adviser to the harris campaign he wrote, "it was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with kamala harris and the amazing staff. we dug out of a deep hole but not enough, a devastating loss. thanks for being in the arena, all of you." dug out of a deep hole is implicitly a slam on joe biden. >> yeah. i think it's even more than implicitly. >> explicitly. >> they are very clear about that and we don't know. it's an unknown whether or not joe biden would have done much worse, maybe new jersey which was a lot closer than democrats expected, even though the democrats won. maybe that, for example, would have gone for donald trump and not joe biden, but despite what david plouffe is saying today and it's understandable he is trying to maybe clean things up a little bit, we heard yesterday from the democrats in the harris campaign and the republicans in the trump campaign the same thing. our data shows that we're doing well, that we're closing well, that we'll be good and only one of the campaigns was right with their da

field organizer by common consensus in the modern history of the democratic party, and overseen by david plouffeobilized field operations for barack obama in '08 and '12 to the greatest effect, that is a huge thing, that if the polls are right, and it's a toss-up, everybody assumes that the ground game can help kamala harris win all three of those states. and i think that it's not only their operation is really good. it's what's happening on the other side, where people who are in those get out the vote efforts that were doing door knocking, who are marching precinct to precinct, door to door, armed with incredibly sophisticated computer technology, what they're saying is the republican side is shi-touch, outsourcing the ground game to elon musk and charlie kirk. turns out not to, at least from what we can tell, turns out to maybe not be the wisest idea in the world. elon musk may be able to put a rocket on mars and might be able to build an electric car, but it turns out that trying to do the ground game in a battleground state on your first try isn't quite the same thing. it's not an engineeri

what did you think of what david plouffe told the gods of america guys?ertainly wrote in my column at one point that 107 days was the only way we were going to get vice president kamala harris as a candidate but was 107 days enough to win over the american electorate? the answer is no. obviously the answer is no but that's also where the campaign team landed. you know, i think also reflecting on where we are as a democracy on the other side of this election is absolutely a useful exercise but was also useful is to remind ourselves of who we are as a country. you know, are we a country committed to this idea of multicultural, multiracial, multi-gendered democracy? what if we aren't? i was listening to the podcast and reading the postmortem assessments of 2024 that suggests this strategy going forward that abandons identity politics and that is the thing i found most interesting from this conversation and others like it because it's not as if donald trump's strategy was not based on identity politics, right, katy? maga is an identity. it ranges on issues fr

here is david plouffe. >> obviously i think in milwaukee, you know, just to use that as an example, wenout targets, fell a little short in philly and detroit. that's not good. that's part of the equation. you got to couple that with dominating in the middle. not just winning it a little. we have to dominate the moderate vote. and i think as we look ahead to '26 and '28, particularly where you have seen drift among noncollege voters generally, particularly those of color specifically, you know, we obviously have to get some of that back. we can't afford any more erosion there. the math just doesn't [ bleep ] work, okay. i don't think this is a permanent realignment, but the point is to win battleground states, yes, of course you have to maximize your turnout and vote share among liberal voters if you're democrat, that was a huge focus. you've got to win the center. >> we have to dominate the moderate vote. there was a piece out this week about the obama coalition and some of the myths i think have erased the fact that he dominated the moderate vote and he dominated it by doing things th