A senior campaign advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris has deleted his X account after seemingly taking a swipe at President Joe Biden.
David Plouffe, who previously led Barack Obama’s successful bid for the White House, thanked members of Harris’ campaign for their work, saying they ‘left it all out on the field’ in a message Wednesday night.
He then concluded the message by saying, ‘We dug out of a deep hole, but not enough,’ calling it a ‘devastating loss.’
Many online took the message as a dig at the president, who some Democrats now blame for Harris’ loss, arguing he should not have sought a second term and instead should have bowed out of the race.
One unidentified source who was said to be close with the president even went as far as to slam Plouffe as a ‘sanctimonious a**’ to Fox News and called his post ‘unproductive.’
David Plouffe, a senior campaign advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris, deleted his X account on Thursday morning
It came amid backlash to a post in which he seemingly took a dig at President Joe Biden, writing: ‘We dug out of a deep hole, but not enough’
The source added that ‘Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump – something [Plouffe] never did.’
Amid the backlash, the senior advisor deleted his X account as of 10am Thursday, according to The Hill.
He had previously been adamant that the presidential race was closer than the polls appeared, calling them ‘horses***.’
‘I can’t speak to the public polls. I spend very little time looking at them… most of them are horses***,’ Plouffe told Pod Save America last month.
‘Some of them may be close but generally, I’d say any poll that shows Kamala Harris up four to five points in one of these seven states, ignore it,’ he said referencing the critical battleground states.
‘Any point that shows Donald Trump up like that – ignore it.’
But Trump wound up winning the handedly winning the election, with his margin of support even improving in most of the states that went blue.
Donald Trump took a commanding victory in Tuesday’s election, which saw him improve in support from 2020 to now in every single state except for one
As Democrats now scramble to understand how they could have lost, some media analysts have suggested Biden should have pulled the plug on his candidacy well before his disastrous debate performance.
This would have either given Harris more time to establish herself, or allowed for an open primary to select a stronger candidate, they argued.
Among those who subscribed to that view point was NBC Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, who said during the network’s election night coverage that Biden’s timing would be ‘something that if she does, in fact, lose will be under a microscope’.
‘Because of course there was so much discussion, even over the summer, about potentially having an open primary and having that fight play out within the Democratic Party,’ she said.
‘So I think it’s one of the big questions moving forward.’
Some media analysts have suggested Biden should never have sought a second term and should have instead bowed out of the race
Yet those closest to Biden have instead pointed the finger at former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
They hold her responsible for pushing Biden out of the race, which they argue he should have stayed in.
‘Bidenworld’ sources have also argued that if he had stayed in the race, he would have won the white working-class voters who largely voted for Trump.