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It’s funny how quickly fingers begin pointing when a campaign is imploding. The LA Times has an article on the fussing and fighting in the Clinton camp over the weekend.
As the campaign faces a make-or-break moment, some high-level officials are trying to play down their role in the campaign. Penn said in an e-mail over the weekend that he had “no direct authority in the campaign,” describing himself as merely “an outside message advisor with no campaign staff reporting to me.”
“I have had no say or involvement in four key areas — the financial budget and resource allocation, political or organizational sides. Those were the responsibility of Patti Solis Doyle, Harold Ickes and Mike Henry, and they met separately on all matters relating to those areas.”
Howard Wolfson, the campaign’s communications chief, answered that it was Penn who had top responsibility for both its strategy and message. Another aide said Penn spoke to Clinton routinely about the campaign’s message and ran daily meetings on the topic.
Everyone is blaming everyone else for the performance at a time that is critical for the campaign. I’d love to see the internal polling at the Clinton campaign on Friday. I don’t imagine the campaign will last beyond tomorrow, but I’ve been surprised before.