David Plouffe said the campaign did not ever have Harris in the lead specifically in late September and early October in their internal polling, and that this was only his recollection about a period one month before the election.
The guy must have had literally hundreds of polls in his head from throughout the campaign.
When we got in, my recollection is some of that [Biden deficit] snapped back, but you know, we were behind. I mean, I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw. You know, I mean, it was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46-47, 47-48. So that’s not where we started. We started behind. She was able to climb out.
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Yes, they were behind, big time, in July and August.
But they climbed out indeed, to the point Harris led for the first time by Aug 29 in the public polling averages, and she retook the lead three times in September after losing it in her duel with Trump.
And Harris kept her Sep 18 lead all the way to Sep 29 when Trump overtook her one last time.
After that she never got the lead back again.
Should we be surprised Plouffe's internal polling from late September and early October never showed Harris leading?
Of course not. His internal polling showed him exactly what Real Clear's averages were showing us.
Dishonest media are trying to make Harris look as bad as possible by taking Plouffe's comments to mean she was never ahead at any time in the campaign's internal polling.
That's not what Plouffe said.
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| Harris for the win Aug 29 |
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| Harris for the win Sep 4 |
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| Harris for the win Sep 13 |
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| Harris for the win Sep 18 |
