David Plouffe

Right.

You would have really had to say, I told him over and over again, he shouldn't run for president.

I told him over and over again, he was mishandling Gaza.

I told him over and over again, we were mishandling the border.

So when she comes out and says, I'm going to do some things different on the border, different economy.

With some voters, because again, I think, you know, it got closer in some of the battleground states than the atmospherics would have suggested.

But it was hard.

Listen, I remember being with her the day of the first debate.

And as it turned out, only debate, which is very damaging to us.

We certainly would have been, I think, advantaged by another debate.

We should have done the Fox debate.

We should have said the night of the first debate said, we'll meet you on Fox in two weeks.

We didn't do that.

I still don't think Trump would have done it.

We should have done that.

We said we want another debate.

We should have been more specific.

We should have anticipated that his team was going to keep him off the debate stage.

But the day of the first debate.

She was like, can I really say I'm a new generation of leadership?