Nate Silver Roasts Harris Campaign Over Post-Election Excuses: ‘Non-Player Characters’

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Nate Silver roasted the top officials who worked on Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign over their post-election spin on Wednesday, musing that they act like “Non-Player Characters with no will of their own.”

In an interview with Pod Save America‘s Dan Pfeiffer, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon complained that Trump “got no shit” for doing less traditional media than Harris, adding “we got shit.”

“We got tons of shit that she wasn’t doing enough media,” noted senior advisor Stephanie Cutter.

“Double standard,” commented O’Malley Dillon.

Silver wasn’t impressed by the argument.

“Harris didn’t do a solo network interview until late September. Which who cares, fine, the networks don’t matter so much. Then she did a bunch toward the end of the race. But she was legit not doing a lot of traditional media,” he observed. “That was the campaign’s choice, not some conspiracy.”

“The Harris campaign folks are the most non-agentic people I’ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority. They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own,” continued Silver.

The Harris campaign folks are the most non-agentic people I’ve encountered in a position of comparable decision-making authority. They don’t even see themselves as victims so much as Non-Player Characters with no will of their own.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 27, 2024

Silver had also taken exception to O’Malley Dillon’s complaint that the campaign had “two weeks fucked up because of the hurricane. Two weeks talking about how she didn’t do interviews, which, you know, she was doing plenty but we were doing in our own way,” on Tuesday.

“The idea the hurricane was some massive October surprise that specifically disadvantaged Harris is just so weird,” he argued. “Relatively speaking, NC/GA even showed less vote swing than other swing states.”