Vice President Kamala Harris’ deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty stated throughout an interview that the Democratic Celebration was “dropping maintain of tradition” as an increasing number of Individuals look to podcasts.
“Campaigns, in some ways, are last-mile entrepreneurs that exist on terrain that’s set by tradition, and the establishments by which Democrats have traditionally had the power to affect tradition are dropping relevance,” he stated throughout an interview with Semafor. “You don’t get a nationwide 8-point shift to the appropriate with out dropping maintain of tradition.”
Harris and President-elect Donald Trump each made an effort to talk to podcasts and nontraditional media forward of the 2024 election. Flaherty informed Semafor through the interview that they’d a tough time reserving Harris on sports activities podcasts.
“Sports activities and tradition have form of merged collectively, and as sports activities and tradition turned extra publicly and form of natively related to this Trump-conservative set of values, it acquired extra difficult for athletes to return out in favor of us,” Flaherty stated. “It acquired extra difficult for sports activities personalities to take us on their exhibits as a result of they didn’t need to ‘do politics.’”
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be at a monitor of the occasion from backstage, simply earlier than taking the stage for her remaining marketing campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Flaherty argued that sports activities tradition was related to right-wing tradition, and made it tough for his or her marketing campaign to achieve folks.
“That’s to not say Steph Curry and Steve Kerr and LeBron [James] and all them popping out wasn’t impactful or vital,” Flaherty stated. “It was extra impactful as a result of it had gotten a lot more durable. However actually the tradition that has been related to heavy sports-watching has turn into related to right-wing tradition in a manner that makes it more durable for us to achieve folks.”
Harris marketing campaign aides who’ve spoken out about their failed bid for the presidency have complained concerning the media, and place some blame on their questions for Harris.
“Actual folks heard, not directly, that we weren’t going to have interviews, which was each not true and in addition so counter to any form of normal that was placed on Trump, that I believe that was an issue,” Jen O’Malley Dillon stated throughout a dialogue on “Pod Save America.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Nationwide Affiliation of Latino Elected and Appointed Officers (NALEO) at Swissotel in Chicago, on June 24, 2022. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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She additionally argued that when Harris did do an interview, the questions have been “small and processy,” they usually weren’t “informing” a voter.
Flaherty additionally spoke about Harris avoiding extra conventional media retailers, although Harris did do a number of interviews with CNN, MSNBC and Fox Information forward of the election.
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“There’s simply no worth — with respect to my colleagues within the mainstream press — in a normal election, to talking to the New York Instances or talking to the Washington Put up, as a result of these [readers] are already with us,” Flaherty stated.
