Recently released memos from former Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign reveal the Democrat&#8217;s public relations struggles in the waning days of her failed White House bid.
The memos — first reported by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf in the forthcoming book &#8220;2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Left Lost America&#8221; — were written by Maria Comella, a PR consultant who also <a href="https://www.comella.co/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served as</a> chief strategist for Chris Christie&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign.
In multiple instances, Comella <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e956-d05a-afb7-ed5645b00000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Harris to &#8220;Call out the Democratic Party for missing the mark on public safety in US cities.&#8221; The memo notes that Harris should demonstrate her willingness to criticize Democrats on top of &#8220;Trump&#8217;s chaos.&#8221;
The memo also urges Harris to appear on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast, noting that the host &#8220;will be looking for authenticity and it&#8217;s an opportunity to differentiate in style. Be honest about mistakes. There is a natural leadership contrast with Trump who can never admit when he is wrong.&#8221;
President Donald Trump joined Rogan&#8217;s show in late October, after which Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-endorses-trump-for-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed.</a> In response, Harris&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-says-harris-campaign-lied-about-her-failed-appearance-on-his-show-brings-receipts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complained</a> that Rogan misled them in a malicious attempt to sabotage her presidential run.
Rogan retorted that the Harris campaign &#8220;never agreed to do the show. None of that&#8217;s true … They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walk-through of the set. That&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e958-da98-a3b7-f95a2eec0000">memo</a> lists former The View cohost Meredith Vieira and sports podcaster Bill Simmons as alternatives to Rogan. Harris never joined Rogan, Vieira, or Simmons, but did make an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-blasted-for-going-on-explicit-call-her-daddy-podcast-as-americans-are-dying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on the explicit podcast &#8220;Call Her Daddy.&#8221;
In accompanying memos published in the same book, Harris was urged to distance herself from then-President Joe Biden, who had only recently dropped out of the race.
Referring to the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous border policies, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e958-de82-a7d7-ff5cedae0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> told Harris not to &#8220;waste time defending what has happened. Acknowledge the mistake, define the problem and how we have to act moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;It turns out it is okay to acknowledge mistakes and failures– particularly if it shows voters where the Vice President is different from President Biden,&#8221; the memo reads.
Harris infamously refused to critique Biden&#8217;s handling of the border in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview, during which she was asked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-it-was-a-mistake-to-allow-illegal-aliens-to-flood-into-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly</a> about the issue. Instead, she blamed the massive influx of illegal aliens on Congress.
The memos also mention issues with vocal Trump opponents, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).
&#8220;In many instances, the voices who are willing to speak out publicly in support of Vice President Harris are imperfect messengers who are viewed with a skeptical eye by the audiences you still need to persuade,&#8221; the memo reads.
The book in which these memos were published also <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">details</a> how Harris was urged to steer away from using the events of Jan. 6th as the crux of her argument in a late October <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-speech-ellipse-donald-trump-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in Washington, D.C.
Instead, Harris concluded her speech  by saying Trump &#8220;is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost.&#8221;

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Newly-Released Memos Reveal All The Good PR Advice Kamala Ignored During Her Campaign

2024 Elections

Border Crisis

Donald Trump

January 6

Kamala Harris

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued a subpoena compelling former White House physician Kevin O&#8217;Connor to testify on Capitol Hill at the end of June.
A probe into the Biden White House — and any attempts that were made to hide the former president&#8217;s physical and cognitive decline from the American people — was announced earlier in the week. The investigation will also explore the extensive use of an autopen during Biden&#8217;s presidency, with particular attention paid to whether or not Biden was aware of what was being signed when the autopen was in use.
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🚨 COMER SUBPOENAS BIDEN&#8217;S DOCTOR TO TESTIFY ON AUTOPEN AND MENTAL DECLINE SCANDAL!
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&#8220;COMER SUBPOENAS BIDEN&#8217;S DOCTOR TO TESTIFY ON AUTOPEN AND MENTAL DECLINE SCANDAL!&#8221; the X post from the Oversight Committee read.
The remainder of the message was directed at O&#8217;Connor, noting that the Committee had already requested that he appear voluntarily to address the issues at hand. Since he had refused to do so, the subpoena was the next logical step toward getting the necessary information.
Comer directed a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025.05.06-Subpoena-Cover-Letter-to-Dr.-Kevin-OConnor.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to O&#8217;Connor, which stated in part, &#8220;On May 22, 2025, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested that you — because of your role as former Physician to the President for President Joe Biden — appear for a transcribed interview on June 25, 2025, broadly regarding ‘the circumstances surrounding your assessment in February 2024 that former President Biden was ‘a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.’&#8221;
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&#8220;The Committee expressed its interest in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;Given your connections with the Biden family, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people. You refused the Committee’s request.&#8221;
&#8220;On June 4, 2025, your counsel responded to the Committee’s request for testimony. Instead of complying with the Committee’s legitimate request, they wrote that you &#8216;cannot appear for the requested interview,&#8217; citing your legal obligations pursuant to &#8216;the provisions of D.C. Code § 14-407 [sic],&#8217; your ethical obligations pursuant to &#8216;Principal No. IV of the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA),&#8217; and the &#8216;physician-patient privilege.&#8217; These arguments lack merit.&#8221;
&#8220;To advance the Committee’s oversight and legislative responsibilities and interests, your testimony is critical,&#8221; Comer concluded. &#8220;Accordingly, please see the attached subpoena for testimony at a deposition on June 27, 2025.&#8221;

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Congress Hits Biden’s Doc With Subpoena As Part Of Cover-Up Probe

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Joe Biden

Politics

Actor George Clooney was reportedly livid after &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski suggested on live television that former President Barack Obama was pulling the &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221; star&#8217;s strings.
Biden biographer Chris Whipple revealed details of the heated conversation — between Clooney and an unnamed MSNBC producer — in his upcoming book about the 2024 presidential campaign, &#8220;Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.&#8221;
The exchange began with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-joins-chorus-of-stars-telling-biden-its-time-to-drop-out-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clooney&#8217;s shock op-ed</a> after he attended a Hollywood fundraiser for former President Joe Biden, who was still running for re-election at the time. Clooney led with the fact that he considered Biden a friend — but then made it clear he believed it was time for him to step aside and bow out of the race.
&#8220;The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney wrote at the time. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-biden-team-says-obama-pushed-george-clooney-to-turn-on-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brzezinski</a> was on the air the next morning and argued that it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t George Clooney&#8221; behind the op-ed.
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Mika Brzezinski says &quot;there&#39;s a lot there&quot; to theory that Obama is behind Clooney op-ed.
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&mdash; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1811411372854653219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This wasn’t George Clooney,&#8221; Brzezinski declared. &#8220;It just wasn&#8217;t &#8230; I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s, there’s a lot there.&#8221;
Clooney, according to Whipple&#8217;s upcoming tome, was incensed. He reportedly called one of the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; producers and gave him an earful, asking, &#8220;How the f*** could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?&#8221;
&#8220;You f***ed me… You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me,&#8221; Clooney continued, even as the producer pointed out he had nothing to do with Brzezinski&#8217;s comments, according to Whipple.
&#8220;George, this is not a f***ing movie,&#8221; the producer reportedly said. &#8220;There’s no script. It’s just not a movie where you go script page to script page.&#8221;

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George Clooney Unloads On Producer After ‘Morning Joe’ Host Claimed Obama Pulled His Strings: Report

George Clooney Unloads On MSNBC Producer After 'Morning Joe' Host Claims Obama Pulled His Strings

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) received fewer votes and a lower share of the votes on Election Day in Massachusetts than failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Warren, however, won her race in the deep blue state, while Harris lost the presidency, even with Massachusetts’ electoral votes. Harris received 2,074,446 votes in the Bay State, while Warren only received 1,988,453 – meaning Warren received 85,993 fewer votes than Harris, with more than 95% of the votes counted, <a href="https://election.dailywire.com/?_gl=1*ls0tik*_gcl_au*MTMxNTMzNjQwMS4xNzI1ODkxMjg1*_ga*NDEzODkwMjcyLjE3MDY3OTk2MjI.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMTYwOTM4MC4zMTAuMS4xNzMxNjA5Mzg2LjU0LjAuMA..">according to Decision Desk HQ</a>.
Harris also received a higher percentage of votes than Warren. Harris won Massachusetts with 61.3% of the vote, while Warren received 59.3% in her re-election bid – a slight difference of two percentage points.
CNN gave Warren <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even worse numbers</a>, showing her nearly 500,000 votes behind Harris, although the news outlet based that on data showing just 76% of the votes in.
Senate races tend to get less attention than presidential ones, but the vote differences between President-elect Donald Trump and Tim Sheehy, who defeated incumbent Jon Tester (D-MT), are much smaller. Trump received 351,783 to Sheehy’s 319,432 – a difference of 32,351, or less than half the difference in raw vote totals between Harris and Warren. But Montana is a less populated state, so the percentage of votes shows a larger gap between Trump and Sheehy, 58.1% to 52.6%, respectively, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/montana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN’s numbers</a>.
Rhode Island, another deep blue state that borders Massachusetts, also showed closer margins between Harris and the Democrat Senate candidate in that state. Harris won the state with 282,915 votes, or 55.5%, while incumbent Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) won with 293,265 votes, or 59.9%. Whitehouse performed better than Harris in his re-election bid, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/rhode-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN’s election results</a>.
Despite performing worse than one of the poorest-performing Democrat presidential nominees in decades (Harris lost ground with nearly every demographic across the country), Warren doesn’t seem to have humbled. On her campaign account, she accused her political opponents of being “extremists.”
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“The far right wants us to feel powerless,” Warren posted on X on Thursday. “Extremists are counting on apathy, cynicism, &amp; heartbreak to be their rocket fuel. They are counting on us to point fingers at each other &amp; lose trust in our ability to make change. I absolutely refuse to give them the satisfaction.”
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The far right wants us to feel powerless. Extremists are counting on apathy, cynicism, &amp; heartbreak to be their rocket fuel. They are counting on us to point fingers at each other &amp; lose trust in our ability to make change.
I absolutely refuse to give them the satisfaction.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1857079727766262202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Warren also insulted Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, by ignoring his 20 years of military service and boasting that she’s on the Senate military personnel panel despite never serving.
“A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense,” Warren said. “I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.”
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A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers.
Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected. <a href="https://t.co/6ADUJSm8x6">https://t.co/6ADUJSm8x6</a>
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1856502912551158049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Warren’s poor showing compared to Harris could be due to her being the <a href="https://2020.elizabethwarren.com/cfpb">architect</a> of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government bureaucracy that has made it more difficult for people to get credit, <a href="https://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2024/05/cfpb-threatens-consumer-credit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> The American Consumer Institute. The pinch has been felt especially since inflation rose under the Biden administration.

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Elizabeth Warren Performed Worse Than Kamala In Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Former advisor — first to former President Barack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Obama</a> and then to Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> — David Plouffe deleted his X (formerly Twitter) account after predicting her victory and taking a swipe at former President Joe Biden.
Following former President Donald Trump’s stunning victory on Wednesday against the VP, Plouffe took to social media and <a href="https://x.com/JuliannaFrieman/status/1854527397606863211">wrote,</a> “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,” the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/harris-campaign-senior-adviser-deletes-x-account-after-dinging-biden-for-deep-hole-he-left-dems-in/">New York Post</a> reported.
“We dug out of a deep hole but not enough,” he added, before he <a href="https://x.com/davidplouffe">deleted his X account</a> on Thursday. “A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you.”
On Tuesday night, <a href="https://x.com/barrycunningham/status/1854545456044347734">CNN</a> spoke to Plouffe, who predicted that Harris was going to sweep all seven of the battleground states in the 2024 election: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. In the end, it was Trump who ended up sweeping all seven.
In the clip on X, Plouffe said they had prepared for the race to be “super close,” but that he was feeling good about their chances and claimed that undecided were turning their way.
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Harris campaign advisor David Plouffe appears to delete his X account after taking a dig at Biden.
“We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss.” <a href="https://t.co/tTtH5fJmyF">pic.twitter.com/tTtH5fJmyF</a>
— Julianna Frieman (@JuliannaFrieman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliannaFrieman/status/1854527397606863211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
He also said that they were “closing strong” in Pennsylvania, and that they had a “credible pathway to all seven states &#8230; to go into Kamala’s column. But we believe they are all going to be close.”
Plouffe was the manager for Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 campaign which resulted in him winning the White House for the first time.
In a statement to POLITICO, Harris&#8217; campaign advisor said he was “Just taking a break as part of reimmersion into life and out of the campaign bunker,” the Post noted.
One aide to Harris after the election told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/how-bidens-vulnerabilities-led-to-a-bloodbath-for-harris-00187807">POLITICO</a>, “We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president. Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.”
After Plouffe’s dig at Biden, one source connected to the president said that “Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump — something [Plouffe] never did,” <a href="https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1854261740277526615">Fox News</a> reported.
The source also labeled Plouffe a “sanctimonious a**” and bashed the advisor’s “unproductive” social media post. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-obama-campaign-manager-sounds-alarm-on-biden-defcon-1-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former Obama Campaign Manager Sounds Alarm On Biden: ‘Defcon 1 Moment’</a>

Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris Campaigns With Liz Cheney In Swing States Across The Nation

Obama-Kamala Advisor Deletes Twitter After Predicting Harris Victory, Taking Dig At Biden