Staffers to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are blaming each other for the Democrats’ defeat in the US presidential election, Axios has reported.
Republican candidate Donald Trump won decisively on Tuesday, sweeping every swing state and taking the popular vote as well. The GOP has regained control of the Senate and looks likely to retain its House of Representatives majority as well.
“We dug out of a deep hole but not enough,” David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and a top adviser to Harris, posted on X on Thursday, calling the outcome “a devastating loss.” He then deleted his account, after backlash from the Biden camp.
“The 107-day Harris campaign was nearly flawless. The Biden campaign that preceded it was the opposite,” one member of the Harris team told Axios, a Washington-based insider politics outlet.
“We did what we could. I think the odds against us were insurmountable,” said another person involved in the Harris…
