Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were both utterly shocked that they were on the losing side of the 2024 presidential election, with the former Vice President even suggesting they needed a recount.
This, according to reporter Amie Parnes, who co-authored the book titled "FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House."
RedState has been sharing some juicy excerpts from the book, but getting a glimpse inside campaign headquarters on election night might be the most fascinating details we've heard yet.
Parnes revealed those details on the podcast "Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri," released on Thursday. She insisted that Harris and Walz genuinely thought they would win the election.
"She was completely shocked, and Tim Walz was shocked," she said.
Parnes then paints a very sad picture of how Walz spent his night, noting that he was sitting in his hotel room "stunned" at what was happening.
Tragic.
The author indicated that the aides had to explain things slowly to the losing duo. They weren't getting it, and they couldn't accept it.
"He (Walz) has no words. And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she's like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?" Parnes said.
Oh my, not accepting election results is a capital crime in the eyes of the Democrat party. How'd Harris get away with that comment?
Parnes said that the campaign was being told "things were looking good" leading up to Election Day, and Harris was convinced that part of the reason they expected a victory party was because her rallies were absolute bangers.
"Kamala Harris was looking at her crowd size, and they felt like the vibe was strong and people were saying, 'Oh, we have more boots on the ground. We're doing better in fundraising,'" the reporter asserted. "And she bought all of that. She bought the hype, and so did a lot of people in the campaign."
Did ... did she see the size of President Trump's rallies? Or nah? The man filled Madison Square Garden and had an overflow outside with tens of thousands of people.
Not to mention, it's widely known that her campaign had to spend exorbitant amounts of money to get celebrities at those rallies, and in turn, some fans turned out to see them, not Harris-Walz.
Still, this information checks out since Walz, in his first interview after their defeat, indicated that they felt the size of their rallies was a good harbinger of things to come.
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t at the end,” the Minnesota Governor said. “So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.”
Laughably, Harris and her people thought they could have won if they had just a little more time. This completely disregards the fact that Harris enjoyed her most popular numbers at the start of her soft coup to take over the nomination, when the media propped her up as the most qualified candidate the nation has ever seen.
"That is f---ing bonkers," one Harris friend said, according to the book. "If Election Day was October first, we might have actually somehow pulled it off. Shorter was actually better, not longer."
The more people saw of Harris, the less they liked her.
What followed was an outright admission as to why Harris never had a chance: She was an empty pantsuit with no "substance."
"I don't think we needed more time… We needed more substance. And she did not have more substance," a Harris adviser told the authors.
Even Barack Obama knew that.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/04/04/kamala-harris-was-completely-shocked-after-finding-out-she-lost-to-trump-should-we-do-a-recount-n2187506
