David Plouffe

And so part of our challenge was how do we make people more concerned about it?

You know, whether it's abortion, you know, whether it's, you know, using the military for his own purposes.

You know, a lot of things Kamala said, I think, have come true.

For sure.

We were unsuccessful at getting enough people to believe it then.

A lot of people might believe it now.

So, you know, at the end of the day, it was a complicated election because it was a patchwork of voters.

Because, again, our ceiling was very low, as it turned out, lower than I've seen in my political lifetime for a Democratic presidential candidate, maybe with the exception of 2014.

Well, you know, listen, she talked about investigating price gouging.

She talked about raising the minimum wage, talked about building a lot of houses.

By the way, that's Korda Mondami's message.

So, you know, the notion that this was all about, you know,

Liz Cheney is just not right.

If you look at the advertising in particular that was being run in these states, it was very focused on the economy.

It was very focused, I think, on a lot of ideas that the Bernie Sanders fans of the world would like.

But also Kamala Harris had her own view of the economy, what she wanted to focus on.

And our job was to, you know, build a campaign around that.

So candidates do matter in these things.

Well, it'll be interesting.

I think we're going to get this played out fully by the people running for president in 27 and 28 on our side.