By this point in a political campaign, with two weeks to go until the general election, everyone on both sides is feeling a little wiped out. The Kamala “Queen of Word Salads” Harris and Tim “Great Walz of China” campaign is no exception, and their polling numbers can’t be helping any.
Jim Messina, who we remember as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, has some rather direct comments for the Harris/Walz campaign team.
Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on MSNBC Sunday that the Kamala Harris campaign team is being forced to make tough decisions in advance of the election.
“[I]n politics you have three things: you have time, you have money, and you have volunteers,” Messina said. “And the one thing of those three you can’t go get more of is time. So there’s really difficult decisions being made in Wilmington right now about what you do with her time, what you do with the surrogates’ time.”
“It’s why you see these campaign people on TV and they look absolutely exhausted, because everyone is telling them they’re a band of idiots, and they should do it their way, and they have to make really, really difficult decisions,” Messina said of Harris’ campaign staff.
That’s a little harsh — the “band of idiots” part, that is. It may be warranted, but it’s harsh. But some of the campaign’s actions are a bit hard to explain otherwise. Of course, we can understand the lack of interviews (especially after the disaster that was the Bret Baier interview) and the lack of unscripted press conferences, or unscripted events in general; Kamala Harris just isn’t any good at them, and each attempt, each failure, just sinks her even more.