Vice President Kamala Harris was unable to overcome a general dissatisfaction with the current administration, her staff say. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
"We are very focused on understanding what happened," O’Malley Dillon said. "We were laser-focused on the battleground states. We knew it would be a margin-of-error race, but with the organization we had and the movement we saw, we thought it was possible."
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Campaign officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also credited the Trump campaign and GOP in general for increasing their outreach to young men across the U.S.
"I think what we have seen is that the folks on the other side, on Team Red, have been doing a lot of this work for years," the official told the Post. "And there’s just, like, a lot of ground for us to make up in … where young men in particular are going to receive their information, particularly young men who are explicitly not looking for political content."
Former President Trump sat down for a three-hour interview with podcast giant Joe Rogan on "The Joe Rogan Experience" just before Election Day. (Screenshot/The Joe Rogan Experience)
Harris made an attempt at similar forms of media with her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, which appeals far more to young women.
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"We are not here to tell you everything was perfect," O’Malley Dillon said. "We lost. But some of the ascribing the loss to singular things, like if we had just done [an interview with] Joe Rogan, then that would have solved the problem with young men. That is too simplistic and doesn’t solve anything and certainly doesn’t solve the path forward."
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