Harris Campaign Official's Take On Her Defeat Comes Out Of Left Field
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Deputy manager Rob Flaherty focused on a facet of the vice president's failed presidential bid that we didn't see coming.
Kamala Harris’ deputy campaign manager wasn’t playing when he said that sports contributed to her loss to Donald Trump.
In an interview with Semafor published Monday, Rob Flaherty said the campaign’s urgency to introduce Harris to sports fans who aren’t political junkies swung and missed.
Some of sports’ biggest shows politely rejected efforts to book the Democratic nominee for some much-needed exposure, he told the outlet.
“Sports and culture have sort of merged together, and as sports and culture became more publicly and sort of natively associated with this Trump-conservative set of values, it got more complicated for athletes to come out in favor of us,” he said. “It got more complicated for sports personalities to take us on their shows because they didn’t want to ‘do politics.’”
Flaherty tied in the campaign’s sports dilemma to the general problem of reaching prominent influencers willing to give Harris a platform. (Her struggles with media engagement have been a hot topic.)
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