{"id":131263,"date":"2024-11-29T03:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131263"},"modified":"2024-11-29T03:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T20:40:46","slug":"no-will-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131263","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No will of their own&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Data journalist Nate Silver criticized top aides to Vice President Kamala Harris as \u201cnon-player characters with no will of their own\u201d after they appeared to shirk blame for the Democrat\u2019s disastrous election loss.<\/p>\n<p>Silver reacted on X to<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/exclusive-the-harris-campaign-on-what-went-wrong\/id1192761536?i=1000678260050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\"> an interview that \u201cPod Save America\u201d conducted<\/a> with Harris campaign officials including Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon and Stephanie Cutter, who insisted that the Democratic nominee granted interviews to the press after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s resounding victory earlier this month has Democrats and their supporters second-guessing Harris\u2019 strategy, which was to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/19\/us-news\/anxious-kamala-harris-is-on-track-to-have-fewest-interviews-of-any-nominee-and-even-dems-are-nervous\/\">largely shun media interviews in the initial stages<\/a> of her campaign \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/07\/opinion\/kamala-harris-media-blitz-proves-she-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-average-americans\/\">only to pivot once she realized <\/a>that she was losing ground in public opinion polls.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Data journalist Nate Silver, founder of 538, had some choice words for Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign operatives. <span class=\"credit\">PBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The image above shows a recent podcast episode of \u201cPod Save America\u201d featuring, from left to right: Dan Pfeiffer, Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ Pod Save America<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Aides to Vice President Kamala Harris defended their campaign strategy of shunning media interviews in the initial stages of her failed run for the presidency. <span class=\"credit\">Youtube \/ Kamala Harris<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Dan Pfeiffer, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/01\/media\/progressive-staffers-rebel-at-ex-obama-aides-media-empire\/\">former Obama official and \u201cPod Save America\u201d host <\/a>commented that Harris \u201cdid more traditional media\u201d than President-elect Donald Trump, Cutter, a senior adviser to Harris, agreed, saying: \u201cTrump did none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd got no sh-t for that,\u201d O\u2019Malley Dillon, the campaign chair, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got sh-t,\u201d O\u2019Malley Dillon said. \u201cI\u2019m saying Trump got no sh-t.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cutter (right) complained that Trump got \u201cno sh-t\u201d from the media for shunning interviews. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ Pod Save America<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cutter agreed, saying: \u201cOh, yes. We got tons of sh-t that she wasn\u2019t doing enough media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pfeiffer concurred, adding: \u201cHe got no sh-t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Malley Dillon decried what she called a \u201cdouble standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, don\u2019t even get me going on that,\u201d Cutter said.<\/p>\n<p>Silver, however, wasn\u2019t having any of it,<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1861806429977383247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\"> writing on X<\/a>: \u201cHarris didn\u2019t do a solo network interview until late September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don\u2019t matter so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>O\u2019Malley Dillon (right) has been criticized for keeping Harris away from media interviews in the first weeks of her campaign. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ Pod Save America<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThen 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\u2019s choice, not some conspiracy,\u201d the founder of the 538 prognostication and data news site wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Silver described Harris campaign officials as \u201cthe most non-agentic people I\u2019ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Silver also reacted to a comment from O\u2019Malley Dillon in which she lamented the fact that the Harris campaign had \u201ctwo weeks f\u2013ked up because of the hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on here and whole thing worth reading but the idea the hurricane was some massive October surprise that specifically disadvantaged Harris is just so weird,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1861577552734626076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Silver wrote<\/a>, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/07\/us-news\/trump-believes-supporters-in-storm-ravaged-south-will-turn-out-on-election-day-even-if-they-have-to-crawl-to-a-voting-booth\/\">the states affected<\/a> by the storm<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us-news\/donald-trump-wins-north-carolina-in-the-2024-presidential-race\/\"> were easily won by Trump. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelatively speaking, NC\/GA even showed less vote swing than other swing states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Malley Dillon and Cutter were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/28\/media\/nate-silver-rips-kamala-harris-campaign-aides-no-will-of-their-own\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data journalist Nate Silver criticized top aides to Vice President Kamala Harris as \u201cnon-player characters with no will of their own\u201d after they appeared to shirk blame for the Democrat\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131263\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}