Kamala Harris’s deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, admitted at a Harvard politics event Dec. 6 that the Democratic Party’s media outreach strategy is not only failing but failing miserably.
During a panel discussion at the school’s Institute of Politics, Flaherty lamented his party and campaign’s failure to find voters who are not paying attention to corporate networks — CNN and MSNBC — and Hollywood A-listers from Diddy’s orbit. He also made an interesting comment about the Democratic Party being the “party of institutions,” which I think is true. The Democrats have become the staunch defenders of the status quo, whereas the Republican Party, under the leadership of President-elect Donald Trump, has become an insurgent force of change in the capital. (Stream Daily Caller’s documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)
Kamala’s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty just straight up admits the left’s “amplification ecosystem is the mainstream media and Hollywood.”
“[They] don’t really mess with us.” pic.twitter.com/EGnREiFPds
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) December 8, 2024
“For the left, our amplification ecosystem is the mainstream media and Hollywood, and the mainstream media and Hollywood don’t really mess with us — they’re not actually allies. And they’re not where these voters who don’t want to pay attention to politics are. We are sitting here at Harvard at a big event with the mainstream media. Voters out there that we actually needed to reach are not seeing this at all, and they’re not seeing mainstream media at all,” Flaherty said.
“I think, fundamentally, we have a mismatch between the amplification engine of the left and the media of this moment, which is increasingly alternative, anti-establishment … that presents a real issue for us, as the party of institutions, at a time when people really hate institutions,” he added.
Flaherty is spot on, and most of us who do not dwell inside this liberal “amplification engine” knew all along that one of the Harris campaign’s biggest flaws was its inability to connect with voters through non-traditional means.
In fact, the Democratic Party is so trapped inside its echo chamber that it may be almost impossible for them to escape. No one really wants to help them, either. They are like the alcoholic beyond saving, beyond intervention. They’re absolutely cooked, and no one is going to bend over backward to fix their wayward brand. (RELATED: Democrats Bud Lighted Their Entire Brand, And It’s Too Late To Save It)
As Flaherty said, the moment in politics and media right now is alternative and anti-establishment. Unfortunately for the Democrats, they are the party of the mainstream and establishment. The only way they can revive themselves in the media world is if they abandon their platform altogether.
For now, they will be stuck in their out-of-touch bubble, chattering among themselves.
