Inside the Democratic Rupture That Undermined Kamala Harris’s Presidential Hopes

Kamala Harris’s campaign thought it knew exactly how to beat Donald Trump. With just weeks left before Election Day, it warned over and over that he was “unhinged, unstable, and unchecked.” But instead of amplifying that message, Future Forward—the $900 million super PAC that the campaign was counting on for a flood of ads—had a different plan. The campaign leader Jen O’Malley Dillon grumbled in private meetings that the group had gone rogue, threatening Harris’s chances of winning. O’Malley Dillon told her team that she had never seen anything else like this.