Kamala Harris was completely shocked by election night loss to Trump after she bought the hype.

Is this not the funniest thing, Rob?

Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walts, were blindsided like the loss to Donald Trump in 2024,

as detailed on fight inside the wildest battle for the White House by the couple of the people that wrote it.

Parnes told the podcast, somebody's got a win with Tara Palmeri.

She was completely shocked and Tim Walts was shocked.

Waltz was so stunned.

He sat silently in his hotel room with staffers explaining the defeat while Harris question,

are you sure?

Have we done a recount?

Is this a Babylon? Is this a reality? The we do a recount? The campaign believed victory was a short and Parnes noting they

thought they were going to win. Harris' confidence stemmed from misleading optimism within her

team as Parns reported that some stuff felt gaslit by senior officials who claimed things were looking good.

Harris bought the hype, swayed by crowd sizes, fundraising success, and boots on the ground,

with Parn saying she bought all of that.

She bought the hype.

And so did a lot of people in the campaign.

Tom.

Well, Pat, I thank you for when you challenged us to say, hey, let's do a 16-week series,

and let's look at these polls, and let's look at facts, let's look at numbers, and let's see what we can find.

And we saw polls that we saw where they were going.

We saw where the numbers were going. We also saw

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