A top adviser to Kamala Harris’ failed 2024 presidential campaign deleted his X account Thursday after he appeared to blame President Biden and the “deep hole” he left Democrats in for the vice president’s historic loss.
David Plouffe, who also managed former President Barack Obama’s successful 2008 campaign, made the veiled jab while praising Harris and the Harris-Walz campaign staff.
“It was a privilege to spend the last 100 days with @KamalaHarris and the amazing staff led by @jomalleydillon who left it all on the field for their country. We dug out of a deep hole but not enough,” Plouffe, 57, wrote in the since-deleted X post.
“A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you.”
Plouffe’s account then vanished as of early Thursday.
“Just taking a break as part of reimmersion into life and out of the campaign bunker,” he explained of the sudden online absence in a statement to Politico.
Plouffe’s remarks about a “deep hole” came as a bevy of Democrats had been privately — and publicly — panning Biden for dropping out of the race so late in the game, suggesting that hindered Harris’ chances.
“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president. Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight,” one aide to the vice president told Politico.
Plouffehad joined the campaign after Harris took over the top of the ticket.
Amid speculation that Plouffe was taking a shot at the president, sources began to quietly badmouth his handling of the campaign.
Some insiders blamed the veteran political strategist and fellow Obama campaign alum Stephanie Cutter for Harris’ failure.
The pair “tried an Obama play with a non-Obama candidate,” one source close to the Harris campaign griped to The Post. “They are the worst.”
A source close to Biden also ripped Plouffe as a “sanctimonious ass” and bashed the adviser’s “unproductive” social media post.
“Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won without [Plouffe]. He successfully beat Donald Trump — something [Plouffe] never did,” the source told Fox News.
Back in 2016, Plouffe contended that now President-elect Donald Trump “must be destroyed thoroughly” and that “his kind must not rise again.”
During his time on the Harris-Walz campaign, Plouffe expressed cautious optimism that the vice president would prevail on election night, but repeatedly underscored that the race was a nailbiter.
“I really can’t speak to the public polls. I spend very little time looking at them,” Plouffe told “Pod Save America,” a podcast made up of former President Barack Obama alum, last month. “And most of them are horses–t.”
“Some of them may be close, but, generally, I’d say any poll that shows Kamala Harris up 4 to 5 points in one of these seven [swing] states, ignore it. Any point that shows Donald Trump up like that, ignore it.”
Plouffe also stressed “how little the campaign matters” and argued that a well-run operation “can give you half a point or a point” boost.
The Harris-Walz campaign had similarly emphasized that the 2024 contest was going to come down to the wire and could go either way. Plouffe had previously declared Harris could possibly feature a sweep of the seven battleground states.
“We think we have momentum; we think we’re closing well,” Plouffe told CNN on the eve of Election Day.
“We think we’re winning more of the people who’ve decided in the last week than Donald Trump. And there are still undecided voters, and we think we are positioned to win them.”
Ironically, Trump picked up all seven battleground states in an incredible swing state sweep.
