Pod Save America Host Says Biden’s Internal Polling Showed Trump Winning 400 Electoral Votes

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Pod Save America host Jon Favreau said on the podcast Friday that President Joe Biden’s internal polls showed former President Donald Trump defeating him in an Electoral College landslide before he exited the race in July.

Favreau, who called Biden’s decision to run for reelection “catastrophic,” also said the president’s team was secretly telling reporters that Vice President Kamala Harris was incapable of beating Trump, but he pushed her candidacy anyway.

As Favreau put it, the Biden camp was “shivving” Harris, who ultimately only nabbed 226 electoral votes en route to handing Trump a second White House term.

The former speechwriter for President Barack Obama said, “Joe Biden’s decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake.” Favreau added:

And he and his inner circle, they refuse to believe the polls. They refused to believe he was unpopular. They refuse to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be upset about inflation. And they just kept telling us that his presidency was historic and it was the greatest economy ever. We just heard him again say that it’s the greatest economy ever. Clearly, 7-80 percent of voters don’t believe that. They don’t believe that about their own personal financial situation, but they just keep telling us that.

And then after the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters at the time that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. So, they were shivving Kamala Harris to reporters while they told everyone else, not a time for an open process. And his vice president can’t win, so he’s the strongest candidate. Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes. That’s what their own internal polling said.

A source close to Biden disputed Feavreau’s claim about the campaign’s internal numbers in a comment to Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher.

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