While leftists across America are melting down, including late-night talk show hosts crying on air and women on TikTok threatening violence and murder on white men, the Democrat civil war over Donald Trump’s Election Day victory has spilled out into the open.
The fighting is not confined just to rank-and-file Democrat members of Congress and TV commentators; team members of many of the various players involved in what some have called the “soft coup” that pushed Joe Biden out of the presidential race are also speaking out, pointing fingers at everyone but themselves over Kamala Harris’ electoral drubbing.
We’ll start with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has been credited with getting the behind-the-scenes movement rolling to force Biden’s hand on the issue back in July. She is now saying they had no time to put a campaign together because Biden waited too late to pass the torch:
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the New York Times in comments published Friday.“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”[…]“We live with what happened, and because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
Harris staffers are also getting into the mix, blaming Biden as well:
“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” grumbled one Harris aide granted anonymity to speak freely. “Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.”Another Harris aide said it was clear Biden should have made a graceful exit much sooner, allowing Democrats to hold a primary they believed Harris would have won.
People in the Biden camp pushed back:
A former Biden staffer dismissed the Harris team’s criticisms as making excuses for the vice president’s failures: “How did you spend $1 billion and not win? What the f***?”[…]Another person familiar with the dynamics said that some on Biden’s team resent Harris for not using the president more during the campaign, even though he is unpopular and prone to gaffes.”The Harris team benched [Biden] and then they lost, so now the people who represent Biden are saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have benched him,’ ” they said.
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Some Harris officials felt that many of the former Biden aides resented Harris and her ascension to the top of the ticket, even as Biden personally and enthusiastically backed her.
Some on the Biden side are also pointing fingers at former President Barack Obama and his advisors:
“There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” one former Biden staffer told our colleague Chris Cadelago. The aide snarked that they’d love to have “whatever they’re drinking if 100 extra days of campaigning for Harris instead of Biden would have changed the results of last night!”
Meanwhile, former Obama senior advisor turned Harris campaign senior advisor David Plouffe has deleted his Twitter account after a tweet he posted talking about how “We dug out of a deep hole but not enough” got highlighted by the New York Times:
According to Fox News White House senior correspondent Jacqui Heinrich one source in the Biden camp branded Plouffe a “sanctimonious ass” and another told her the tweet was “unproductive” – adding: “Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump – something [Plouffe] never did.”
Meanwhile, who is probably laughing while this all plays out? This guy:
And this lady, who wore red to the voting booth on Election Day:
Joe and Jill are loving it. Prove me wrong. 😉
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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