Kamala Harris 2024 election loss caused by ‘s–t candidate,’ ‘arrogant’ staff, despondent Dem sources say

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris grounded to link pinch voters while her run aides focused connected trivial issues, starring to her lopsided election nonaccomplishment erstwhile President Donald Trump, Democratic insiders show The Post.

Harris, 60, replaced President Biden, 81, atop nan Democratic summons successful precocious July and quickly surged successful polling while raking successful astir $1 cardinal complete a six-week play — massively out-raising Trump, 78, and providing nan resources to thrust location her early advantage complete nan Republican nominee.

Her nonaccomplishment to seal nan woody outraged Democrats, including those who some worked successful nan Harris-Biden management and connected her campaign.

“I’ve worked connected 5 statesmanlike campaigns. I knew this would beryllium hard. Others acted for illustration they knew they were going to win,” said 1 personification who chipped successful during nan last agelong of nan race.

“They were arrogant.”

Among those getting nan blasted Wednesday were Harris herself and run chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon — pinch 1 musing: “Where did $1 cardinal go?”

Insiders besides heaped blasted connected Obama run alums David Plouffe and Stephanie Cutter, saying they misjudged what issues really mattered to voters.

The duo “tried an Obama play pinch a non-Obama candidate,” said 1 root adjacent to nan Harris campaign. “They are nan worst.”

Ultimately, Harris flopped because “people didn’t link pinch her,” this personification said.

“[O’Malley Dillion] managed governmental and crushed operations — Cutter and Plouffe were doing messaging and ads and they misjudged what group cared astir because cablegram news and Twitter are not existent life. Biden should person ne'er tally [in 2024] AND nan statement is excessively acold left.”

Harris’ connection focused heavy connected restoring abortion authorities and respecting antiauthoritarian norms — while Trump hammered location nan effect of authorities spending-driven ostentation that caused prices to spike astir 22% since Biden and Harris took office, arsenic good arsenic information and economical concerns astir record-breaking forbidden immigration.

Harris disavowed aliases declined to remark connected galore of her much progressive anterior argumentation stances — including banning hydraulic fracturing for lipid and earthy gas, decriminalizing forbidden separator crossings and providing free activity alteration operations to detained forbidden immigrants.

“F—king idiots,” a 3rd Democratic root said of nan messaging. “People are fed up. How’s that Inflation Reduction Act moving out, Chuck [Schumer]?”

“I deliberation broadly nan unit of Democratic campaigns are not typical of nan country,” said nan root who worked connected nan Harris run precocious successful nan race.

“Like these staffers, advisers and consultants who went to Ivy League schools and are [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] liberals don’t correspond existent Americans,” they added.

“The run unit unrecorded in a vacuum of ‘they/them’ and ‘Latinx.'”

“I besides deliberation section programs don’t do thing and Dems person specified religion successful section and doorway knocking. Trump didn’t do immoderate of that,” nan root went connected — referring to nan monolithic Harris inaugural to get volunteers to sound connected doors successful plaything states specified arsenic Pennsylvania.

Biden, whom Democratic mutineers forced to measurement speech complete his evident cognitive decline, “would person been crushed. But [Michigan Gov. Gretchen] Whitmer [and North Carolina Gov.] Roy Cooper would person won,” nan run alum said.

“I blasted Biden for not announcing earlier that he wouldn’t run. Dems could person had a robust unfastened primary,” this personification continued, while adding: “I deliberation [the concisely floated conception of a] mini-primary was a tube dream.”

A 4th Democratic insider was unsparing successful their disapproval of Harris.

“She was a s–t campaigner and Trump made her look worse than Hillary Clinton,” said this source.

“Biden didn’t merit that curen and he sewage pushed retired for an quiet pantsuit. At slightest Biden hit Trump and Hillary Clinton had much balls than either of them.”

Others connected nan receiving extremity of nan finger-pointing see White House unit seen arsenic contributing to rot successful Democratic authorities and messaging — including first woman Jill Biden’s Rasputin-like adviser Anthony Bernal, who allegedly bullied unit and eclipsed White House main of unit Jeff Zients successful power; arsenic good arsenic property caput Karine Jean-Pierre.

Jean-Pierre has served arsenic nan apical Biden-Harris management spokesperson since May 2022, contempt her widely perceived mediocre connection skills and an soul effort to switch her past year.

The effect, 1 erstwhile White House adjutant argued, was to destruct nan Democratic Party’s opinionated connected nan issues.

“We mislaid nan messaging connected nan system during nan administration,” this personification said. “That is simply a reflection of [Jean-Pierre] and her being weak.

“If you opportunity populist is astatine liking … enactment for illustration it.”