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The man behind Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign had some telling remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris’ outlook as he decried “horsesh*t” polls and leaned into early voting.

Sunday on the “Pod Save America” podcast with co-host and successor Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s onetime senior advisor turned Harris senior campaign advisor, David Plouffe, was working overtime to quell concerns about the vice president’s struggling sales pitch.

In particular, as polling trends affirmed the momentum was on the side of former President Donald Trump, Plouffe sought a silver lining by drawing a contrast to differing voter trends between Democrats and Republicans.

Slighting GOP voters as incels, men who denigrate women only because of their inability to have a relationship, the campaign adviser contended, “We like what we’re seeing in early voting data so far. We particularly like what we’re not seeing on the Trump data, which is there’s not an army of kind of incels showing up.”

What Plouffe wasn’t saying about the vibes campaign, which had resorted to doing an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, was the fact that early voting had dropped significantly compared to the 2020 election.

According to Republican political strategist John Couvillon, early voting was down 45%. While the range differed from state to state, consideration of mail-in ballots as well found the decline in states like Georgia and North Carolina to be 84% and 75% respectively.

As had previously been covered, activist Scott Presler, whose get-out-the-vote effort put significant work toward shoring up the GOP vote in Pennsylvania, found Democrats in the Keystone State had filed 416,000 fewer mail-in ballot requests so far compared to this time in the 2020 race.

He also revealed that a 650,000 advantage of registered Democrats had been narrowed to only 333,000 as the last day to register of Oct. 21 drew near.

Meanwhile, Plouffe took pains to detract from the polling data that showed Harris losing ground amid increased exposure to the American people while he knocked the majority of surveys as “horsesh*t.”

“I really can’t speak to the public polls. I spend very little time looking at them,” he told Pfeiffer. “And most of them are horsesh*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 [battleground] states, ignore it. Any point that shows Donald Trump up like that, ignore it,” he argued.

In discussing the drop, Plouffe said, “I think the freakout is because there were a bunch of polls, I’d say in the last month, that showed a lead for Kamala Harris that was not real. It’s not what we were seeing — we’ve seen this thing basically be tied let’s say since mid-September.”

“This the race we have, it’s the race we expected. I don’t think it’s going to open up for either candidate,” he continued, “I think it’s going to be close all the way in.”

Amid the gaslighting that managed to affirm the reality that every vote would be critical to the outcome, the senior advisor also tried to sell bipartisan appeal for his candidate after knocking GOP voters and said, “I think Kamala Harris may surprise at the end of the day with either straight-up Republican or Independents who are essentially Republicans,” backing her. “We’re seeing a continued strength there, and that matters a great deal, given how big those cohorts are.”

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