In a post on X, Plouffe hid the possible jab supposed to hit the current administration by praising Harris and her campaign staff.
"It was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with @KamalaHarris and the amazing staff led by @jomalleydillon who left it all on the field for their country. We dug out of a deep hole but not enough," Plouffe said in a Nov. 6 tweet. "A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you."
His account with the handle @davidplouffe has since been deleted.
In a statement he issued to Politico, he said that he is "Just taking a break as part of re-immersion into life and out of the campaign bunker."
Analysts interpreted his remark as indirectly blaming Biden for dropping out of the race so late in the game, suggesting that hindered Harris' chances.
"We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president. Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight," one aide to the vice president told the news outlet. (Related: Furious Democrats blame JOE BIDEN and TIM WALZ for Kamala Harris' humiliating election loss.)
Plouffe managed former President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Meanwhile, sources began to quietly blame the veteran political strategist and his fellow Obama campaign alum Stephanie Cutter for Harris' failure.
"Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump – something [Plouffe] never did," a source close to Biden told Fox News.
During the campaign period, Plouffe expressed cautious optimism that the vice president would prevail on election night but repeatedly underscored that the race was a nailbiter. "I really can't speak to the public polls. I spend very little time looking at them," Plouffe told "Pod Save America" podcast. "And most of them are horses–t."
The Harris-Walz campaign had similarly emphasized that the 2024 contest was going to come down to the wire and could go either way. Plouffe had previously declared Harris could feature a sweep of the seven battleground states.
"We think we have momentum; we think we're closing well," Plouffe told CNN on the eve of Election Day. "We think we're winning more of the people who've decided in the last week than Donald Trump. And there are still undecided voters, and we think we are positioned to win them."
However, Trump swept all seven battleground states.
Massive campaign debt scandal about to erupt
Plouffe's "disconnection" from the political arena came right in time for a massive campaign debt scandal to surface.
Politico's Christopher Cadelago revealed that after raising over $1 billion and left with $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16, the Harris campaign ended the 2024 election season with "at least $20 million in debt."
Breitbart CEO Matt Boyle posted a tweet, disclosing that Rob Flaherty told him that the $20 million debt thing is real. Flaherty is Harris' deputy campaign manager and reports to campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon.
"Flaherty is currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back. This includes other campaigns and outside groups," Boyle said.
Ok so this just got very explosive. A Kamala campaign staffer who saw these posts called me just now and said there is a massive scandal here worthy of an audit.
The $20 million debt thing is real. Rob Flaherty, this staffer said, is currently shopping around the Kamala… https://t.co/7EJ9ruKQzs
— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) November 7, 2024
Boyle also stated that O'Malley Dillon blew through a billion dollars in a few months and it was her idea to do all the concerts that featured Katy Perry, Lizzo, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, etc. at the expense of "prioritizing and spending money on social media and other campaign priorities."
The post also revealed that a group in Georgia had to lay off 100 people because they couldn't pay them. It gets worse as the source further said that several people who were working for the Harris campaign are still awaiting several overdue payments they were promised for their work.
"People didn't like working with her. Many people on the campaign felt like we lost because Kamala wasn't allowed to run her campaign. They were running Joe Biden's campaign instead of a Kamala campaign. Obnoxious and very much a gatekeeper and interfering with the vice president's people who were trying to do their job," the staffer said.
According to data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Harris campaign had received over $1 billion up until Oct. 16 -- including when it was the Biden campaign.
The New York Times also reported that the Harris campaign spent "six figures" to fly banners over four National Football League (NFL) games in October in an attempt to reach male voters in swing states. The Guardian reported in November that it also spent "a reported $450,000 a day" to have ads displayed on the Las Vegas Sphere in the swing state of Nevada.
Experts also said that Harris "never really landed" her economic message during the presidential campaign.
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