Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe said Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump was due to electoral weaknesses in battleground states.

“It’s always worth reminding people: It’s very difficult for Democrats to win battleground states,” Plouffe said in a podcast posted Tuesday.

Plouffe appeared on a podcast with Harris’ former campaign chairman Jen O’Malley and other Democratic Party strategists to discuss why Harris failed to defeat Trump.

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Plouffe gave his analysis of the electoral situation in each of the battleground states ahead of the elections.

“Given that we had a challenging political environment, the fact that we got the race to a dead end was positive, but boy, was it slow.”

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“Let’s look at Pennsylvania,” he said, beginning a discussion about some of the most critical swing states. “Twenty-five percent of the electorate is roughly liberal. Thirty-four percent are conservative. By the way, in most battleground states that conservative number is above forty. So in every battleground state, there are more conservatives than liberals. So, in Pennsylvania, if we go by exits, Trump won the conservatives 91-8, Harris won the moderates 93-6, and Harris won 56-43, but you have to win 60% of them, right?”

“If Democrats want to win battleground states, that’s a false choice,” Plouffe continued. “Obviously you want to maximize your base, and that was a place where we spent a tremendous amount of time, a lot of resources. That is crucial. And obviously, I think in Milwaukee, just to use that as an example, our Turnout goals fell a little bit short in Philly and Detroit, so that’s not good, that’s part of the equation.”

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Plouffe said Democrats “must dominate” moderate votes to win national elections or they will have problems as a party.

“The math just doesn’t work,” Plouffe said.

“It was a dead heat race,” Plouffe continued. “The political atmosphere was quite brutal.”

Original article source: Kamala Harris campaign worker says Democrats lost because they have battleground issues