Meghan Hays, a former staffer to Vice President Joe Biden serving in the White House, now claims that the Harris-Walz campaign is inappropriately placing blame on the media for its defeat in the presidential election.
Hays, who had been the director of message planning for the White House from January 2021 to August 2022, was replying to comments made by Jen O’Malley Dillon, who was the chair of the Harris campaign, on the podcast titled “Pod Save America” earlier this week.
“We would do an interview, and Stephanie’s point, the questions were small and processy and about like–” she said.
“She did not do an interview for the first 30-some days. I think that the media latched on to that, and then when they did ask her questions, it was more about why she wasn’t doing the interviews.” she continued.
The story that Vice President Harris was frightened of doing more interviews early on in her brief campaign was deemed “completely bullshit,” according to O’Malley Dillon, who also blasted the journalists with whom the vice president eventually did sit down for an interview.
Grabien brought attention to Hays’s interview on Fox News on Friday, during which he stated that the narrative began for a specific reason.
“They were not informing a voter who was trying to listen to learn more or to understand,” she said. “And I’m not here to say that that, you know, the whole system was focused on us incorrectly.”Hays said.
“I’m just saying, like, again, of the things we need to explore as we move forward as a campaign and as a country, that does a disservice to voters,” she added.
It was Hays’s recommendation that the campaign and its backers refrain from engaging in the “blame game.”
“So I don’t necessarily think that this blame game is set in the right direction either, but I understand that they are in a spot where they have to explain why they lost, so I understand why they have to blame somebody, I guess,” she concluded.
During the podcast, Cutter also mentioned how problematic it was that Harris was unable to separate herself from President Biden.
“So our focus was, let’s look to the future. Let’s describe her and her approach to things. Let’s use policies, future-looking policies to demonstrate that difference. But in the end, you know, we’ve all seen the data. It’s — too many people thought that you’d be a continuation. Which on the economy was, you know, the incumbent killer.” Cutter concluded.
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