"Our first week, it was like, Well, we need a biography ad; we need to talk about the border; we need to lay out an economic contrast; we need to get health care in there, abortion," Plouffe told me. "If you have six, seven, eight months, you storyboard all this stuff, you have a narrative arc. Everything was smashed and collided here."
The senior Harris-campaign leadership was notably unremorseful about the choices it made in Harris's failed sprint to the White House. The officials stressed the welter of difficult decisions that rapidly engulfed them from the moment Biden stepped aside.
Immediately, Harris had to formally secure the Democratic nomination, put her own stamp on the Biden campaign operation, introduce herself to voters, and begin the process of digging out from the deficit in the polls that Biden left after his disastrous June debate performance against Donald Trump.
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