Senior Kamala Harris Staffer: 'We LOST the Culture War'
Rob Flaherty, the senior campaign for Kamala Harris, openly admitted the Vice president’s campaign failed to read the room in the run-up to the election as millions of American voters rejected wokesim.
Flaherty, who ran the digital outreach for Harris’s campaign, said they knew “something was wrong” as it became apparent they were losing their “hold of culture.”
That’s right, the Harris campaign was the last to get the memo that radical leftism had no place in a nation that values freedom and speech and personal liberty.
Flaherty noted that “the campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren’t obsessed with politics. “This led to earlier signs that Harris was on the losing ticket after “the biggest personalities and shows politely turned them down” for podcasts.
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“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.
“Campaigns, in many ways, are last-mile marketers that exist on terrain that is set by culture, and the institutions by which Democrats have historically had the ability to influence culture are losing relevance,” he further declares.
“You don’t get a national eight-point shift to the right without losing hold of culture,” Flaherty added.
He also admitted that traditional media had become dead weight, with many Americans flocking to platforms like X and alternative news media to get unbiased news.
“There’s just no value — with respect to my colleagues in the mainstream press — in a general election, to speaking to the New York Times or speaking to the Washington Post,” Flaherty asserts.
Flaherty even admitted that Donald Trump‘s moves ahead of the election were genius.
“When Trump did the McDonald’s thing, it was smart, because it was a thing that obviously drove television coverage, but it also drove social media engagement too,” he said..
“And those things often happen in tandem, but they don’t always, and so it was the sweet spot. It drove traditional coverage and nontraditional media.”
When the Harris campaign failed to gain traction, Flaherty feared the worst.
“The reason folks are seeking alternative sources of media and are turning away from political news is because they don’t trust our institutions.”
“They don’t trust elites, they don’t trust the media, they don’t trust all this stuff. So the party of elites and institutions is going to have a hard time selling to people in these places,” Flaherty said.
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