They came. They saw. They crumbled.
It started with Jen O'Malley Dillon, the co-chair of Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Her very sleepy candidate faced historically bad approval ratings, but O'Malley Dillon said there was nothing to worry about, telling the New Yorker that "favorability and vote choice" are "no longer correlated." (She was wrong.) Then, when the brain-dead Biden short-circuited on the debate stage for all to see, bragging about his golf game and beating Medicare, she again stood by her man. The calls for Scranton Joe to quit the race were just an "overblown media narrative" driven by "Beltway class" hysteria. (Wrong again.)
A person of minimal competence might have seen through O'Malley Dillon's bullshit and opted for a new campaign chief. Alas, Kamala Harris is not that person. She retained O'Malley Dillon, who proceeded to fill the new campaign’s ranks with a carnival of rejects from the Island of Misfit Aides.
There was Quentin Fulks, who served as senior adviser to J.B. Pritzker while the morbidly obese billionaire drove Illinois into the ground (only New York lost more residents in 2022). Joining him was O'Malley Dillon's consulting firm partner, Stephanie Cutter, best known for advising two of the left's biggest winners, Hillary Clinton and Justin Trudeau. Rounding out the libtard gang was David Plouffe, the once-heralded Obama bro who said Glenn Youngkin's 2021 gubernatorial win was the result of a "flat-out racist" strategy.
O'Malley Dillon, Fulks, Cutter, and Plouffe had more than $1 billion at their disposal. They enjoyed support from essentially every A-list celebrity in the world. (Even Queen Latifah, who never endorses!) They were also running against a man this country’s smartest liberals all considered to be literally Adolf Hitler—a racist, sexist, fascist, insurrectionist felon whom voters had kicked out of office just four years ago. They couldn’t possibly lose.
Except they did. They absolutely blew it—even worse than Hillary.
It's difficult to point to something Team Kamala did right. They catapulted Liz Cheney to the top of the surrogate list. They ditched a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan for a three-minute speech from Beyoncé. They funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to the likes of Fat Joe and 2 Chainz for rally appearances that nobody remembers. And they lost, badly, turning the so-called Blue Wall into red rubble in the process. Trump made gains with almost every single demographic, with the possible exception of childless cat ladies.
If you're concerned about O'Malley Dillon and co.'s mental health in the wake of such an embarrassing loss, don't be. They're all very confident that they, in fact, ran a "flawless" campaign and that Kamala Harris, in fact, did a ton of interviews. The issue, Fulks told Pod Save America, was the lack of "contingency planning" for Biden's exit. Cutter, during the same interview, touted the campaign's excellent work to "give the impression" that Harris was "different" than Biden "without pointing to a specific issue." We’re pretty sure she wasn’t joking.
We at the Washington Free Beacon are not usually inclined to reward failure. But in this case, Team Kamala's historic failure was a glorious win for America. The same person who insisted it was "complete bullshit" to say Harris was "afraid to have interviews" and touted Sleepy Joe’s intellectual prowess could have been running the White House. Instead, she's giving interviews defending the campaign's decision to spend $100,000 on a temporary set for a sex podcast.
In other words, all is right in the world. And we have Team Kamala to thank. Congrats, Jen, Quentin, Stephanie, Dave, and all of your idiot colleagues. For saving America through sheer incompetence, arrogance, and stupidity, you're all Free Beacon Men of the Year.
