{"id":2376399,"date":"2024-12-04T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-harris-campaign-aide-laments-democrats-abandoning-primary-process-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:26:01","slug":"top-harris-campaign-aide-laments-democrats-abandoning-primary-process-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-harris-campaign-aide-laments-democrats-abandoning-primary-process-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Harris campaign aide laments Democrats&#8217; abandoning primary process- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-harris-campaign-aide-laments-democrats-abandoning-primary-process-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2376399&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A senior adviser to Vice\u2062 President Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign,\u2063 David Plouffe, criticized \u2064the Democratic Party\u200d for abandoning the primary process \u2063in the\u200d lead-up to\u2064 the 2024 elections, describing it\u200c as a\u2064 &#8220;cardinal sin.&#8221; In an interview with\u200c the Atlantic, Plouffe expressed concerns about the party&#8217;s strategy, noting\u200b that the lack \u2063of a competitive\u2064 primary could hinder their chances against President-elect Donald Trump. He remarked that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">existing political landscape presented significant challenges<\/a>, questioning whether any Democrat would have \u200dsucceeded\u200b amid the circumstances, but emphasized the missed \u200copportunity for a more open primary field that could have better served the party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Senior Harris campaign aide laments Democrats&rsquo; move to abandon primary process<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1887962\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A senior adviser to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Harris<\/a> campaign called the Democratic Party&rsquo;s decisions on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/primaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">primary<\/a> process during the 2024 elections&nbsp;its &ldquo;cardinal sin.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>David Plouffe, who served in a top advisory role to Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo;s campaign, made the admission during a recent interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/12\/harris-team-election\/680844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Atlantic<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure, given the headwinds, any Democrat could have won,&rdquo; he said, reflecting on Harris&rsquo;s loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Election Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But if we had a primary in which a bunch of people ran and auditioned &hellip; through that process, whoever emerged &hellip; would have been a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/situationships-arent-sweet-no-matter-what-corporate-candymakers-try-to-sell-you\/\" title=\"Situationships&#039; aren&#039;t sweet, despite corporate candymakers&#039; attempts to convince you otherwise\">fully formed person<\/a>, would have had more time to mount a general election campaign. [Not having that process] is the cardinal sin,&rdquo; Plouffe said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His words follow a barrage of criticism leveled at Democratic Party elders after President Joe Biden, the party&rsquo;s all-but-certain presidential nominee, dropped his bid for reelection on July 21.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Democrats had several options over how to select a new nominee to replace Biden. Some favored a whirlwind &ldquo;mini primary&rdquo; that would have had voters pick a new presidential candidate before the Democratic Party&rsquo;s August convention. Other Democrats initially backed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3091216\/what-is-an-open-convention-joe-biden-drops-out-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-starting-to-lay-the-groundwork-for-an-open-convention-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Democrats are starting to lay the groundwork for an open convention - Washington Examiner\">open nominating process<\/a><\/a> at the convention, with all of Biden&rsquo;s delegates he had earned in primary victories throughout the year being released to candidates competing to win their favor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden almost immediately endorsed Harris to replace him at the top of the ticket. Party chiefs ultimately decided to follow his lead and coalesced around her, making her the uncontested candidate at the convention in August, and she easily clinched enough delegate support to win the nomination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive at a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harris&rsquo;s ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket without winning any primaries as the presidential candidate had critics stewing. Trump led Republicans in calling it a &ldquo;coup.&rdquo; &#8203;&#8203;Some Democratic affiliates, including Black Lives Matter, slammed the process as an &ldquo;anointing.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The criticisms echoed a letter Biden himself wrote to Democrats who were pressuring him to drop out of the race in early July. He rebuffed their calls at the time, saying, &ldquo;We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have nearly 3,000 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin. &hellip; Do we now just say this process didn&rsquo;t matter? That the voters don&rsquo;t have a say?&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plouffe&rsquo;s latest comments indicate that the concerns about the primary process made an imprint at the deepest levels of Harris&rsquo;s own campaign effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While presidential candidates traditionally have a year or more to barnstorm the country during the primary season, the lack of such a process stunted the Harris campaign, Plouffe and others argued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1887962\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1887962\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Harris aide criticizes Democrats for skipping primaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2376400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Harris-Loss.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,35844,36329],"class_list":["post-2376399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-harris-campaign","tag-primary-process"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Harris-Loss.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376403,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376399\/revisions\/2376403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}