Mike Nellis
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And if I had to guess, then they got polling information of what the
general electorate looked like, how independents were feeling, how people who were on the sidelines were feeling, and they started to make strategic decisions.
And this is always one of the hardest things on a campaign is you have to make tough choices.
And I've tried to be as generous as I can to the Harris folks.
There's plenty of things that I would say like they did, they made a mistake, but that's with hindsight.
And it's without the information that they had.
Like, I don't know what information they had in front of them.
that made them decide not to do Rogan, for example, because I feel like that's an obvious one.
They should have done that.
And I would have kept going with the weird stuff.
I like the weird stuff.
But sometimes it's like the things that I like and resonate with me are not the same things that are going to resonate with the median voter.
And what I remind people all the time is the median voter in American politics is like a single parent working like two jobs.
And they're lucky if at the end of the day, they can put their kids to bed and drink a beer and enjoy their lives.
They're not thinking about the world the same way that we are.
So they had a lot more information.
I know a lot of folks on the left are mad.
That they went, you know, deep with the like Liz Cheney, bring everybody together, go after like, you know, independent, you know, conservative voters who were on the fence about Trump.
That strategy may have been right.
I don't know.