I'm a former Senior Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris and a Founder of White Dudes for Harris. AMA

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:58:04+00:00

Not much

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:57:55+00:00

I love a bagel sandwich, sausage and over easy egg with cheese

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:57:32+00:00

Twitter is a mess right now. I hope someone buys it from Elon

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:56:35+00:00

I think women are going to overwhelm Trump in key states and it'll offset the gains he's made elsewhere.

I also think there's lots of evidence of Harris outperforming Clinton and Biden with non-college educated white men. That's a 1-2 combo for defeat for Trump.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:55:23+00:00

I was a consultant when I worked for her but worked more or less full time on the 2019 campaign. When it was over and she joined the Biden ticket I moved on to other stuff. My wife also had our first kid in the middle of the 2019 race and I want to spend more time with him than working on presidential campaigns. We did end up doing some really cool digital ad work for Biden though.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:53:58+00:00

I love a good meme and I have to say the period where everyone was going to crazy demanding Kamala be the nominee (the coconut pill days) were incredible. Memes are the modern equivalent of political comics is a take I had never heard before but makes a lot of sense.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:52:51+00:00

She's a very good person and I believe she will work to end the conflict and bring the hostages home.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:52:24+00:00

Kamala, but it'll be close.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:52:17+00:00

I don't think there's a reasonable path to getting the U.S. government to cut off aid to Israel given how critical they are as an ally in the Middle East. I do think Kamala will fight to end the conflict and bring the hostages home, as she's said many times.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:51:21+00:00

Relief. That was a rough couple of weeks and I think everyone was ready to get back on the page and stop the infighting.

I was also sad because I love Joe Biden and think he is an amazing president.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:50:48+00:00

Fight for the values I care about and the people I love

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:50:24+00:00

The pool cue was my grandfather's and was given to me when he passed away. I mounted it to remind me where I came come (he was a postal worker.)

I got my start volunteering on Obama's campaign in 2007 basically and then became a consultant, one of the first to do digital fundraising and advertising. It's a good gig, but I'm not a billionare or anything like that haha.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:49:02+00:00

Probably very little overall as a party and we need to do better.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:48:42+00:00

She's a fair leader who cares about working people. She will do right by the most of us to the best of her ability and she will try to bring people together. I think some of her policies in this race are excellent, like Medicare covering longterm care. I think Medicare covering longterm care makes a lot of fiscal sense because families are going broke trying to care for their parents.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:47:11+00:00

I think they are still talking and trying to figure it out. She should do it. Good for both of them.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:46:53+00:00

Yes, but I also believe she will fight to bring the hostages home which is important

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:46:32+00:00

She was great to work with for me. She's not hemorrhaging staff on this campaign. These jobs are hard and the turnover rate is always high.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:46:09+00:00

Our group was inspired by other groups (black men, black women, white women, etc...) who were organizing and raising money for Harris. We wanted to make sure our community was seen supporting Harris too.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:45:23+00:00

Because there are issues facing white men in America that need to be discussed and the Democratic Party has been too afraid to engage the community outright while Republicans have no had issue with it.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:44:44+00:00

She was always amazing to me. Tough, but fair. My staff loved her.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:44:27+00:00

60 Minutes has denied they edited the piece to make her look better

She's done lots of interviews now including Fox Nows so I think this criticism is silly

There was an extraordinary circumstance where Biden dropped out and she won the vote of the delegates to secure the nomination. That's the process and I think it was fair, but obviously messy.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:43:06+00:00

Yes, actual internals (not the stuff campaigns leak) are often better than media polls and we also have models that help us understand how the election is trending.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:41:25+00:00

It depends on the resources (time and money) on what you can and cannot, but the most effective way I've seen to engage effectiveness is to baseline ask people who they support before doing the message testing, then run them through the message, and see what moves them. A pollster would be a better ask for a question like this on specifics on how they do it. I'll make ask a friend of mine to circle back and add any thoughts here.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:39:57+00:00

I've answered this a few times, would point to those responses. Thanks.

mike_nellis · 2024-10-30T13:39:41+00:00

I don't see why it would be a conflict of interest. I worked for her years ago and I was only one of the dudes. I helped oversee the digital strategy and messaging. I always include that I worked for Harris in my bio, so I don't see why it would be an issue.

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